CVE-2007-3381

Vulnerability 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/.

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References

• http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.14/gdm-2.14.13.news
• http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.16/gdm-2.16.7.changes
• http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.18/gdm-2.18.4.news
• http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.19/gdm-2.19.5.news
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26313Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26368Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26520Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26879Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26900Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-11.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:169
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0777.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475451/30/5550/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25191
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018523