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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…
Low1.5EPSS 0.33%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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/.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.5 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (18)
- GLSA-200709-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.16/gdm-2.16.7.changes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 26313 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2781 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 25191 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 26879 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10887 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1599 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.14/gdm-2.14.13.news (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 26368 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2007:169 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.18/gdm-2.18.4.news (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20070803 FLEA-2007-0041-1 gdm (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.19/gdm-2.19.5.news (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0777 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1018523 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 26900 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 26520 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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