CVE-2007-3381

Published: Aug 7, 2007Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-20

1.5LOW

NVD MITRE

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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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:LAccess Vector

Local

AC:MAccess Complexity

Medium

Au:SAuthentication

Single

Impact

C:NConfidentiality

None

I:NIntegrity

None

A:PAvailability

Partial

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

Gentoo Foundation Inc.

oss-project·US

Gentoo LinuxOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

gnome

oss-project·USaka glib, gnome project

gdmOn-premDesktop App

Consumer Software / productivity

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Exploitability

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References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-11.xml

security.gentoo.org

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.16/gdm-2.16.7.changes

ftp.gnome.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/26313

secunia.com

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