CVE-2018-14424 (GCVE-0-2018-14424)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-08-14 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 09:29
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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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