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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cve-icon 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

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-01-23T01:55:04.460

Modified: 2018-10-30T16:27:34.687

Link: CVE-2014-0979

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