CVE-2012-0943 Information

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.

Reference

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