| Revision Date: | 2007-08-07 | Version: | 635 |
| Title: | RHSA-2007:0777: gdm security and bug fix update (Moderate) |
| Description: | Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log into your system with the X Window System running and supports running several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time.
A flaw was found in the way 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. (CVE-2007-3381)
All users of gdm should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch that resolves this issue.
Red Hat would like to thank JLANTHEA for reporting this issue.
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2007-3381
RHSA-2007:0777
RHSA-2007:0777-01
RHSA-2007:0777-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
| Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed OR Package Information
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is installed
AND gdm is earlier than 1:2.16.0-31.0.1.el5
AND gdm is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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