lightdm-gtk-greeter: crash with NULL username

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-0979  

Debian Bug report logs - #734472
lightdm-gtk-greeter: crash with NULL username

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Reported by: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>

Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 13:21:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security

Found in version lightdm-gtk-greeter/1.1.6-2

Fixed in versions lightdm-gtk-greeter/1.6.1-5, lightdm-gtk-greeter/1.7.0-2

Done: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Debian Xfce Maintainers <pkg-xfce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#734472; Package lightdm-gtk-greeter. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:21:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian Xfce Maintainers <pkg-xfce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:21:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: lightdm-gtk-greeter: crash with NULL username
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:18:00 +0100
Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter
Version: 1.1.6-2
Severity: important

Entering an empty username can make lightdm-gtk-greeter crash. No CVE
assigned yet.

More info:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/1266449
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11812


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (450, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.17-97
ii  libcairo2               1.12.16-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0      2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.38.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0              3.8.6-1
ii  liblightdm-gobject-1-0  1.9.5-1
ii  libx11-6                2:1.6.2-1

Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter recommends:
ii  desktop-base               7.0.3
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.10.1-1
ii  gnome-themes-standard      3.8.4-1
ii  policykit-1                0.105-4

lightdm-gtk-greeter suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf changed [not included]

-- debconf information:
* shared/lightdm-greeter: lightdm-gtk-greeter
  lightdm-gtk-greeter/lightdm-greeter: lightdm-gtk-greeter



Added tag(s) security. Request was from Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:30:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Reply sent to Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:51:17 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:51:17 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #12 received at 734472-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
To: 734472-close@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#734472: fixed in lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.6.1-5
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:48:37 +0000
Source: lightdm-gtk-greeter
Source-Version: 1.6.1-5

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lightdm-gtk-greeter, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 734472@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> (supplier of updated lightdm-gtk-greeter package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers <pkg-xfce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
Description: 
 lightdm-gtk-greeter - simple display manager (GTK+ greeter)
Closes: 734472
Changes: 
 lightdm-gtk-greeter (1.6.1-5) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * debian/patches:
     - 07_fix-NULL-username addef, fix crash when last username is empty. This
       is CVE-2014-0979.                                         closes: #734472
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Reply sent to Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:51:22 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:51:22 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #17 received at 734472-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
To: 734472-close@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#734472: fixed in lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.7.0-2
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:48:44 +0000
Source: lightdm-gtk-greeter
Source-Version: 1.7.0-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lightdm-gtk-greeter, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 734472@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> (supplier of updated lightdm-gtk-greeter package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:33:38 +0100
Source: lightdm-gtk-greeter
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Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.7.0-2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers <pkg-xfce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
Description: 
 lightdm-gtk-greeter - simple display manager (GTK+ greeter)
Closes: 734472
Changes: 
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 .
   * debian/patches:
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