A flaw was discovered in gdm 3.24.1 where gdm greeter was no longer setting the ran_once boolean during autologin. If autologin was enabled for a victim, an attacker could simply select 'login as another user' to unlock their screen.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-3741 A flaw was discovered in gdm 3.24.1 where gdm greeter was no longer setting the ran_once boolean during autologin. If autologin was enabled for a victim, an attacker could simply select 'login as another user' to unlock their screen.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:28:16.573Z

Reserved: 2017-08-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-12164

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-26T16:29:00.327

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:08:57.803

Link: CVE-2017-12164

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-06-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-12164 - Bugzilla

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