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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2014-01-23T01:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T09:34:40.438Z
Reserved: 2014-01-07T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-0979
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2014-01-23T01:55:04.460
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:03:08.933
Link: CVE-2014-0979
Redhat
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