Candidate: CVE-2010-2387
PublicDate: 2012-12-21 05:46:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2387
 http://www.auscert.org.au/13123
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571846
 https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2010_2387_password_disclosure
 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/60642
 http://secunia.com/advisories/40780
 http://secunia.com/advisories/40690
 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.20/gdm-2.20.11.changes
Description:
 vicious-extensions/ve-misc.c in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.20.x before
 2.20.11, when GDM debug is enabled, logs the user password when it contains
 invalid UTF8 encoded characters, which might allow local users to gain
 privileges by reading the information from syslog logs.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_gdm:
 upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=161016
upstream_gdm: released (2.20.11)
hardy_gdm: ignored (reached end-of-life)
lucid_gdm: not-affected (2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu5.2)
oneiric_gdm: not-affected (3.0.4-0ubuntu11)
precise_gdm: not-affected (3.0.4-0ubuntu15)
quantal_gdm: not-affected (3.6.1-0ubuntu1)
devel_gdm: not-affected (3.6.1-0ubuntu1)