{"action":"Upgrade lightdm-gtk-greeter to 1.6.1-5 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"1.6.1-5","introduced":"0"}],"component":"lightdm-gtk-greeter","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:12","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["1.6.1-5"],"id":"tcs_01M5NAPKFP20RRRWAVSZ54SJGA","modified_at":"2026-10-23T15:47:37.524303179Z","published_at":"2014-01-23T01:55:04.460Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0979","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0979"],"severity":{"label":"unknown"},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0979","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0979"}],"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, whi"}