Executive Summary

Summary
Title Updated gdm packages fix DoS vulnerability
Informations
Name MDKSA-2007:169 First vendor Publication 2007-08-21
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2007-08-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 1.5 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 2.7 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

A vulnerability was discovered in how gdm listens on its unix domain socket. A local user could crash a running X session by writing malicious data to gdm's unix domain socket.

Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:169

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10887
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10887
Title: The GDM daemon in GNOME Display Manager (GDM) before 2.14.13, 2.16.x before 2.16.7, 2.18.x before 2.18.4, and 2.19.x before 2.19.5 does not properly handle NULL return values from the g_strsplit function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (persistent daemon crash) via a crafted command to the daemon's socket, related to (1) gdm.c and (2) gdmconfig.c in daemon/, and (3) gdmconfig.c and (4) gdmflexiserver.c in gui/.
Description: The GDM daemon in GNOME Display Manager (GDM) before 2.14.13, 2.16.x before 2.16.7, 2.18.x before 2.18.4, and 2.19.x before 2.19.5 does not properly handle NULL return values from the g_strsplit function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (persistent daemon crash) via a crafted command to the daemon's socket, related to (1) gdm.c and (2) gdmconfig.c in daemon/, and (3) gdmconfig.c and (4) gdmflexiserver.c in gui/.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2007-3381
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22688
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22688
Title: ELSA-2007:0777: gdm security and bug fix update (Moderate)
Description: The GDM daemon in GNOME Display Manager (GDM) before 2.14.13, 2.16.x before 2.16.7, 2.18.x before 2.18.4, and 2.19.x before 2.19.5 does not properly handle NULL return values from the g_strsplit function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (persistent daemon crash) via a crafted command to the daemon's socket, related to (1) gdm.c and (2) gdmconfig.c in daemon/, and (3) gdmconfig.c and (4) gdmflexiserver.c in gui/.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2007:0777-01
CVE-2007-3381
Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): gdm
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 48

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for gdm MDKSA-2007:169 (gdm)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDKSA_2007_169.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for gdm FEDORA-2007-1362
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_1362_gdm_fc7.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for gdm FEDORA-2007-653
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_653_gdm_fc6.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200709-11 (gdm)
File : nvt/glsa_200709_11.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
39560 GNOME Display Manager (gdm) g_strsplit Function Local DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0777.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20070807_gdm_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-1362.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-09-24 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200709-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-08-28 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2007-169.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-08-13 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2007-0777.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-08-13 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2007-0777.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2014-02-17 11:38:50
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