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openSUSE Security Update : lightdm (openSUSE-SU-2012:0354-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74566

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

- update to version 1.0.9

 - stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes (bnc#745339, lp#927060, CVE-2012-1111)

 - fix compilation against gthread

 - change session directory once user permissions are set so it works on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files

 - fix object cleanup on exit

 - fix lightdm --debug not working on newer GLib

 - drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc (CVE-2011-3153)

 - fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout

 - drop lightdm-CVE-2011-3153.patch which has been included upstream

Solution

Update the affected lightdm packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745339

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00019.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74566

File Name: openSUSE-2012-154.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-qt-greeter-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblightdm-qt-1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-qt-greeter, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-gtk-greeter-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblightdm-qt-1-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-gtk-greeter, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-gtk-greeter-branding-opensuse, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblightdm-gobject-1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblightdm-gobject-1-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lightdm-gtk-greeter-branding-upstream

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3153, CVE-2012-1111