CVE-2011-3153: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dmrc.c in Light Display Manager (aka LightDM) before 1.1.1 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on ~/.dmrc.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 11.10 only
• Robert Ancell Lightdm: up to and including 1.1.0; version 0.0.1 only; version 0.0.2 only; version 0.0.3 only; version 0.0.4 only; version 0.1.0 only; …

Published 2014-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.