Debian 12 — lightdm-gtk-greeter — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2014-0979 Upstream summary: The start_authentication function in lightdm-gtk-greeter.c in LightDM GTK+ Greeter before 1.7.1 does not properly handle the return value from the lightdm_greeter_get_authentication_user function, which allows local […]