Vulnerabilities > Lightdm GTK Greeter Project

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2014-01-23 CVE-2014-0979 Local Denial of Service vulnerability in LightDM GTK+ Greeter
The start_authentication function in lightdm-gtk-greeter.c in LightDM GTK+ Greeter before 1.7.1 does not properly handle the return value from the lightdm_greeter_get_authentication_user function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an empty username.
local
low complexity
opensuse lightdm-gtk-greeter-project
2.1