CVE-2018-14424
gdm: use-after-free in the GDM daemon
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Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · August 13, 2018
Updated · January 14, 2026
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 7.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 · Use After Free