CVE-2007-3381

Publication date 7 August 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

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/.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gdm 9.04 jaunty
Fixed 2.20.0-0ubuntu1
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 2.20.0-0ubuntu1
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 2.20.0-0ubuntu1
7.10 gutsy
Fixed 2.20.0-0ubuntu1
7.04 feisty Ignored end of life, was needed
6.10 edgy Ignored end of life, was needed
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life

Notes

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local denial of service (many other ways to cause local DoS)