+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of CVE-2007-3381 +++

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.

-- Additional comment from bressers on 2007-07-10 14:41 EST --
Created gdm tracking bugs for this issue

CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: F7 ()
CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: FC6 ()
CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: Fdevel ()
CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: RHAPS-EL3 ()
CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: RHAPS-EL4 ()
CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: RHDS3 ()
CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: Stacks-v1 ()
CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: rhel-2.1 ()
CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: rhel-3 ()
CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: rhel-4.5.z ()
CVE-2007-3381 Doesn't affect: rhel-4.6 ()
CVE-2007-3381 Affects: rhel-5.0.z [bug #247659]
CVE-2007-3381 Affects: rhel-5.1 [bug #247660]

-- Additional comment from bressers on 2007-07-30 17:08 EST --
This has been laked early:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/branches/gnome-2-16/ChangeLog?r1=5100&r2=5099&pathrev=5100