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CVE-2012-1111

Date: October 27, 2014

lightdm before 1.0.9 does not properly close file descriptors before opening a child process, which allows local users to write to the lightdm log or have other unspecified impact.

Severity Score

5.9

Related Resources (8)

Url: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/566

Url: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/927060

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-1111

Url: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745339

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1111

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00019.html

Url: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/557

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-1111

Severity Score

5.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Information Leak / Disclosure

CWE-200

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.6
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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