USN-2012-1: Light Display Manager vulnerability

6 November 2013

Light Display Manager could be made to expose sensitive information locally.

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Christian Prim discovered that Light Display Manager incorrectly applied
the AppArmor security profile when the Guest account is used. A local
attacker could use this issue to possibly gain access to sensitive
information.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to
make all the necessary changes.

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