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CVE-2007-3381

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/.

Published

2007-08-07T10:17:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 1.5 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

2.7

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-20

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	gnome	gdm	≤ 2.14.12	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	0.7	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	1.0	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.0	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.2	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.3	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.4	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.5	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.6	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.8	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.13	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.1	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.2	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.3	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.4	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.5	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.6	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.7	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.8	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.9	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.10	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.11	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.3	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.4	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.5	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.14.6	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.16	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.16.1	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.16.2	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.18	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.18.1	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.18.2	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.18.3	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.19	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.19.1	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.19.2	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.19.3	Yes
Application	gnome	gdm	2.19.4	Yes

References

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.14/gdm-2.14.13.news ([email protected])
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.16/gdm-2.16.7.changes ([email protected])
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.18/gdm-2.18.4.news ([email protected])
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.19/gdm-2.19.5.news ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/26313 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/26368 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/26520 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/26879 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/26900 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-11.xml ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:169 ([email protected])
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0777.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475451/30/5550/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25191 ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018523 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2781 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1599 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10887 ([email protected])
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.14/gdm-2.14.13.news (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.16/gdm-2.16.7.changes (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.18/gdm-2.18.4.news (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.19/gdm-2.19.5.news (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/26313 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/26368 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/26520 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/26879 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/26900 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-11.xml (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:169 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0777.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475451/30/5550/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25191 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018523 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2781 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1599 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10887 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)