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CVE-2018-14424

Description

The daemon in GDM through 3.29.1 does not properly unexport display objects from its D-Bus interface when they are destroyed, which allows a local attacker to trigger a use-after-free via a specially crafted sequence of D-Bus method calls, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.043

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
GNOME Display Manager (USN-3737-1) gdm3_3.28.2-0ubuntu1.4_i386.debLinux
GNOME Display Manager (USN-3737-1) gdm3_3.28.2-0ubuntu1.4_amd64.debLinux
gdm3 security update(DSA-4270-1) gdm3_3.22.3-3+deb9u2_i386.debLinux
gdm3 security update(DSA-4270-1) gdm3_3.22.3-3+deb9u2_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2527-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) gdm-3.10.0.1-54.6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2527-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) gdm-debuginfo-3.10.0.1-54.6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2527-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) gdm-debugsource-3.10.0.1-54.6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2527-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) gdm-lang-3.10.0.1-54.6.3.noarch.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2527-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) gdmflexiserver-3.10.0.1-54.6.3.noarch.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2527-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libgdm1-3.10.0.1-54.6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2527-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libgdm1-debuginfo-3.10.0.1-54.6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2527-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) typelib-1_0-Gdm-1_0-3.10.0.1-54.6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234