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CVE-2007-3381

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
07/08/2007
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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/.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 1.50 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
1.50
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.14.12 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.14.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.14.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.14.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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