Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2012-0943. PoCs published by Ryan Lortie.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit describes a local arbitrary-file-deletion vulnerability in LightDM due to improper handling of filenames with spaces in the cleanup script. An attacker can create a file with a space in its name to trick the script into deleting unintended files.
Description
debian/guest-account in Light Display Manager (lightdm) 1.0.x before 1.0.6 and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, as used in Ubuntu Linux 11.10, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-6648 has been assigned for the gdm-guest-session issue.
Exploits (1)
The exploit describes a local arbitrary-file-deletion vulnerability in LightDM due to improper handling of filenames with spaces in the cleanup script. An attacker can create a file with a space in its name to trick the script into deleting unintended files.