Bug 1034209 (CVE-2013-4459)

Summary:	CVE-2013-4459 lightdm: guest account restrictions bypass
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Ratul Gupta <ratulg>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	christoph.wickert, gregor, rdieter
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Description Ratul Gupta 2013-11-25 12:39:24 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-4459 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2013-4459
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4459
Assigned: 20130612
Reference: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-October/000471.html
Reference: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-October/000472.html
Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/1243339
Reference: UBUNTU:USN-2012-1
Reference: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2012-1

LightDM 1.7.5 through 1.8.3 and 1.9.x before 1.9.2 does not apply the AppArmor profile to the Guest account, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging the Guest account.

Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-11-25 12:40:21 UTC

Created lightdm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1034212]