Bug 1606915 (CVE-2018-14424)

Summary: CVE-2018-14424 gdm: use-after-free in the GDM daemon
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: alexl, dmoppert, john.j5live, mclasen, normand, psampaio, rhughes, rstrode, security-response-team, yozone
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Bug Depends On: 1615446, 1615447    
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-07-20 22:15:15 UTC 
A flaw was found in GDM daemon. A use-after-free in the GDM daemon, which is possible to trigger via a specially crafted sequence of D-Bus method calls as an unprivileged user.
Comment 4 Doran Moppert 2018-08-06 02:54:44 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Chris Coulson (Ubuntu Security)
Comment 5 Doran Moppert 2018-08-13 00:22:58 UTC 
Upstream bug:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/issues/401
Comment 6 Doran Moppert 2018-08-13 15:40:56 UTC 
Created gdm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1615446]
Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-22 04:31:53 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-14424