CVE-2014-0979

Publication date

2014-01-23 01:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.