oss-security - CVE Request: ldm (LTSP display manager)

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Message-ID: <1331582630.3983.14.camel@mdlinux>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:03:50 -0400
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@...onical.com>
To: coley@...us.mitre.org
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, security@...ntu.com
Subject: CVE Request: ldm (LTSP display manager)

Could we please get a CVE assigned to the following issue?:

Starting with ldm 2.2.x, upstream switched to using wwm as a minimal window manager.
It was discovered that wwm ships with keybindings that allow spawning an xterm.

As the ldm greeter runs as root, this allows for a passwordless root shell.

Bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ldm/+bug/953340

Commit:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ldm-trunk/revision/1419

Thanks,

Marc.

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Marc Deslauriers
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