Bug 247655 (CVE-2007-3381) - CVE-2007-3381 Gdm denial of service
Summary: CVE-2007-3381 Gdm denial of service
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2007-3381
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 247659 247660 250277 250278
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-07-10 18:32 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2023-05-11 12:43 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-09-28 15:23:59 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2007:0777 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: gdm security and bug fix update 2007-08-07 19:20:04 UTC

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
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