Bug 1050746

Summary:	CVE-2013-7273 gdm: local DoS possible when cancelling and disable-user-list=true when fallback greeter is used [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	20	CC:	Brandon.Vincent, rstrode
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	fst_owner=bvincent
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Last Closed:	2014-09-25 23:24:22 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	1050745

Description Vincent Danen 2014-01-09 01:22:37 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When creating a Bodhi update request, please use the bodhi submission link
noted in the next comment(s).  This will include the bug IDs of this
tracking bug as well as the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
Bodhi notes field when available.

Please note: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora.
Only one tracking bug has been filed; please ensure that it is only closed
when all affected versions are fixed.

[bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2014-01-09 01:22:41 UTC

Please use the following update submission link to create the Bodhi
request for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well
as this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get
updated when new packages are pushed to stable.

Please also ensure that the "Close bugs when update is stable" option
remains checked.

Bodhi update submission link:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/new/?type_=security&bugs=1050745,1050746

Comment 2 Brandon Vincent 2014-09-25 23:24:22 UTC

This vulnerability affects the fallback greeter portion of GDM. The fallback greeter is no longer present in the latest GDM packages in the F19/F20/F21 repositories.