CVE-2012-0943

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-05-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

debian/guest-account in Light Display Manager (lightdm) 1.0.x before 1.0.6 and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, as used in Ubuntu Linux 11.10, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-6648 has been assigned for the gdm-guest-session issue.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 11.10
Robert Ancell Lightdm: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+7)

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1399-2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96471251/lightdm.secure-cleanup.debdiff
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1399-2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96471251/lightdm.secure-cleanup.debdiff

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