[replying to http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/5]
On 01/07/2014 05:47 AM, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > an openSUSE user discovered that it is trivial to crash > lightdm-gtk-greeter by entering an empty username due to a NULL > pointer dereference. When a greeter crashes the lightdm daemon > exits. > This constitutes a local denial of service which can be triggered > by any unprivileged attacker requiring the intervention of an > administrator to restart lightdm. It affects all versions of > lightdm-gtk-greeter. Hm, if this warrants a CVE for lightdm, then gdm3 needs one also: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704284 http://bugs.debian.org/683338 Basically, when gdm3 is configured to not show a list of users (but instead shows a blank box for the login prompt), if the user clicks "cancel" or hits the escape key, then the greeter gets put into a mode without any way to log in (no prompts available). I've tried to debug it but it appears to be due to some sort of timing-dependent case. When i step through the code with gdb, i haven't been able to reproduce the issue. It is definitely a bad situation for machines in public locations with this configuration. --dkg
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