Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200709-11 (gdm)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200709-11. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200606-14 (gdm)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200606-14. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200709-11 (gdm)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200709-11. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200606-14 (gdm)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200606-14. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1040-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1040-1 (gdm)

The remote host is missing an update to gdm announced via advisory DSA 1040-1. A vulnerability has been identified in gdm, a display manager for X, that could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by exploiting a race condition in the handling of the .ICEauthority file. The old stabl...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : gdm vulnerability (USN-396-1)

A format string vulnerability was discovered in the gdmchooser component of the GNOME Display Manager. By typing a specially crafted host name, local users could gain gdm user privileges, which could lead to further account information exposure. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted th...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gdm vulnerability (USN-293-1)

If the admin configured a gdm theme that provided an user list, any user could activate the gdm setup program by first choosing the setup option from the menu, clicking on the user list and entering his own instead of root's password. This allowed normal users to configure potentially dangerous...

Fedora 7 : gdm-2.18.4-1.fc7 (2007-1362)

JLANTHEA reported a denial of service flaw in the way that gdm listens on its unix domain socket. Any local user can crash the locally running X session. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : gdm (gdm-2387)

A format string bug in the program 'gdmchooser' could potentially be exploited to execute code under a different user id. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update gdm-2387. The text...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : gdm (gdm-1582)

This update solves a bug in GDM. This bug allows to bypass root authorization to access the login configuration. CVE-2006-2452 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update gdm-1582. The tex...

Design/Logic Flaw

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not properly compile and link gdm with tcpwrappers on x8664 platforms, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions...

CVE-2007-5079

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not properly compile and link gdm with tcpwrappers on x8664 platforms, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions...

CVE-2007-5079

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not properly compile and link gdm with tcpwrappers on x8664 platforms, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions...

CVE-2007-5079

CVE-2007-5079 affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in the gdm package, where the gdm build on x86_64 platforms was missing TCP wrappers support, potentially allowing a remote attacker to bypass access restrictions. The issue is tied to a missing TCP wrappers mechanism rather than a new vulnerabilit...

GLSA-200709-11 : GDM: Local Denial of Service

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200709-11 GDM: Local Denial of Service The result of a gstrsplit call is incorrectly parsed in the files daemon/gdm.c, daemon/gdmconfig.c, gui/gdmconfig.c and gui/gdmflexiserver.c, allowing for a NULL pointer dereference. Impact :...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gdm (MDKSA-2007:169)

A vulnerability was discovered in how gdm listens on its unix domain socket. A local user could crash a running X session by writing malicious data to gdm's unix domain socket. Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

RHEL 5 : gdm (RHSA-2007:0777)

An updated gdm package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Gdm the GNOME Display Manager is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display...

CentOS 5 : gdm (CESA-2007:0777)

An updated gdm package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Gdm the GNOME Display Manager is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display...

gdm security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0777 An updated gdm package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Gdm the GNOME Display Manager is a highly...