Fedora Core 5: 2006-338 Critical: gdm Socket Management Fix

Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable

reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log

into your system with the X Window System running and supports running

several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time.

(Notes taken from upstream release mail)

- The sockets connection between the slaves and the GDM

daemon is now

better managed to better ensure that sockets are never left

open.

(Brian Cameron)

- Corrected bug that causes a core dump when you click on

gdmgreeter

fields that have an id. (Brian Cameron)

- Add new GdmXserverTimeout configuration setting so that

the length of

time GDM waits for the Xserver to start can be tuned, so

GDM better

works with Xservers that require more than 10 seconds to start.

(Emilie)

- The happygnome and happygnome-list gdmgreeter themes now

use the

official logo. (Brian Cameron)

- Now GDM configure supports --with-sysconfsubdir so that GDM's

configuration directory can be configured to not have

"/gdm" appended

to the end.

- Fix for ensuring .ICEauthority file has proper

ownership/permissions.

Addresses CVE-2006-1057. (Hans Petter Jansson)

- Fix "Show Actions Menu" section in gdmsetup so it appears

when both

"Plain" and "Themed" style is chosen. (Brian Cameron, Dennis

Cranston)

- Now use LINGUAS procedure for defining languages.

(Michiel Sikkes)

- Now Xsession script uses "$@" instead of "$1" so it is

possible to

pass arguments with the command to run. (Brian Cameron)

- Add Trusted Solraris support. (Niall Power)

- One line fix to Solaris auditing logic that fixes a bug

causing

authentication to fail when auditing is turned on. (Brian

Cameron)

- Fixes to compile with C99 and fixes to compile under NetBSD.

Remove EXPANDED_* variables from the configure. (Julio M.

Merino

Vidal)

- Translation updates (Žygimantas Beru