CVE-2014-0979 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in LightDM GTK+ Greeter versions prior to 1.7.1. An attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by providing an empty username during the authentication process, leading to a system crash. This is a low-severity local vulnerability, requiring local access to exploit, with no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:lightdm_gtk\+_greeter_project:lightdm_gtk\+_greeter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:lightdm_gtk\+_greeter_project:lightdm_gtk\+_greeter:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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