Bug 1284574 (CVE-2015-8316)

Summary: CVE-2015-8316 lightdm: XDMCP request packet with no addresses crashes LightDM
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-11-23 15:43:59 UTC
It was found that when XDMCP sercer is enabled and LightDM receives an XDMCP Request packet with no addresses, it will attempt to access a negative index into an array, causing denial of service.

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/352

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-11-23 15:44:14 UTC
Created lightdm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1284575]

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2016-03-24 14:36:45 UTC
per linked fedora bug,

According to the CVE_2015-8316 text, "some versions of LightDM (1.14 and 1.16 series) are vulnerable".

Fedora (and EPEL) ship lightdm-1.10.x, so it would appear we are safe, closing.