Bug 247655 (CVE-2007-3381)

Summary: CVE-2007-3381 Gdm denial of service
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Josh Bressers 2007-07-10 18:32:02 UTC
JLANTHEA reported a denial of service flaw in the way that gdm listens on its
unix domain socket.  Any local user can crash the locally running X session.

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Red Hat would like to thank JLANTHEA for reporting this issue.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2007-07-30 21:08:33 UTC
This has been laked early:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/branches/gnome-2-16/ChangeLog?r1=5100&r2=5099&pathrev=5100

Comment 6 Kurt Seifried 2011-09-28 15:23:59 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5

Via RHSA-2007:0777, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0777.html