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GNOME Display Manager Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA26313
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Release Date:
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2007-08-03
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Popularity:
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9,860 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | GNOME Display Manager (GDM) 2.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in GNOME Display Manager, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to the GDM daemon improperly handling NULL values returned by the "g_strsplit" function. This can be exploited to crash the GNOME Display Manager by sending specially crafted requests to the local GDM socket.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.16.0-10-fc6 on Fedora 6 and also reported in versions prior to 2.14.13, 2.16.7, 2.18.4 and 2.19.5.
Change Page:
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