CVE-2012-6648 Information

Description

gdm/guest-session-cleanup.sh in gdm-guest-session 0.24 and earlier as used in Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS 10.10 and 11.04 allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2012-0943 per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-0943 is used for the guest-account issue.

Reference

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1399-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/2Bsource/lightdm/2Bbug/953044 https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96474113/gdm-guest-session.secure-cleanup.debdiff