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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:07:19 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@...onical.com>, coley@...us.mitre.org,
        security@...ntu.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: lightdm

On 03/05/2012 05:54 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> Could we please get a CVE assigned to the following issue:
> 
> lightdm leaks file descriptors to child processes. A local attacker can use this to bypass
> intended permissions and write to the log file, cause a denial of service, or possibly
> have another unknown impact.
> 
> Bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/927060
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658678
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marc.
> 
> 

Please use CVE-2012-1111 for this issue.

-- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)

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