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

low Nessus Plugin ID 27712

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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 attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected gdm, gdm-debuginfo and / or gdm-extra-faces packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e2a45589

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 27712

File Name: fedora_2007-1362.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gdm, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gdm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gdm-extra-faces, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3381

FEDORA: 2007-1362