Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability in gdm-guest-session

CVE-2012-6648 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

gdm/guest-session-cleanup.sh in gdm-guest-session 0.24 and earlier, as used in Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS, 10.10, and 11.04, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2012-0943 per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-0943 is used for the guest-account issue.

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