CVE-2018-14424
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.05%gdm3 - security update
Published: 8/14/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14424
Description
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/gdm3from 0, < 3.28.2-4
- Debian/gdm3from 0, < 3.14.1-7+deb8u1
- Debian/gdm3from 0, < 3.22.3-3+deb9u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |