CVE-2012-6648

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-6648
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-05-22 23:55:03 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
Descriptiongdm/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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 - lts All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.04 All All All
Application Gdm-guest-session Project Gdm-guest-session 0.20 All All All
Application Gdm-guest-session Project Gdm-guest-session 0.21 All All All
Application Gdm-guest-session Project Gdm-guest-session 0.22 All All All
Application Gdm-guest-session Project Gdm-guest-session 0.23 All All All
Application Gdm-guest-session Project Gdm-guest-session All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug #953044 “Guest session clean up can remove other user's file...” : Bugs : lightdm package : Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.launchpad.net
USN-1399-1: gdm-guest-session vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ubuntu.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
launchpadlibrarian.net/96474113/gdm-guest-session.secure-cleanup.debdiff af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 launchpadlibrarian.net
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