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CVE-2012-6648

N/A

Published: May 22, 2014 at 11:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsUbuntu LinuxGdm Guest Session

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.4%

Description

gdm/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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ubuntu Linux · Canonicalrubygems

95%

10.04 10.10 11.04

Gdm Guest Session · Gdm Guest Session Project

95%

v ≤ 0.240.20 0.21 0.22 0.23

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1399-1

References (3)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUPatch

Source: [email protected]

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1399-1

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044

x_refsource_MISC

Source: [email protected]

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96474113/gdm-guest-session.secure-cleanup.debdiff

CVSS

2.1LOW[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-264

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