Use-after-free vulnerability in GDM daemon allows for denial of service or potential code execution

CVE-2018-14424 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The daemon in GDM through 3.29.1 does not properly unexport display objects from its D-Bus interface when they are destroyed, which allows a local attacker to trigger a use-after-free via a specially crafted sequence of D-Bus method calls, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution.

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