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Fedora Core 5: 2006-1467 Critical: GDM Memory Exposure Issue

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2006
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addresses memory stability concerns in gdm for Fedora Core 5 tied to CVE-2006-6105 security flaw. Upgrade suggested to maintain system integrity.
Fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID CVE-2006-6105

Summary

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.

Fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID

CVE-2006-6105. This fixes a problem where a user can

enter strings like "%08x" into the gdmchooser "Add"j

host button and print out memory.

- Update to 2.14.11, which fixes CVE-2006-6105

- Drop upstreamed patches

* Thu Jun 8 2006 Ray Strode - 1:2.14.10-1

- Update to 2.14.10

* Thu Jun 8 2006 Ray Strode - 1:2.14.9-1

- Update to 2.14.9

- Fixes autologin problem (bug 195014).

* Thu Jun 8 2006 Ray Strode - 1:2.14.8-1

- Update to 2.14.8

- Fixes CVE-2006-2452 (bug 343476).

* Wed Jun 7 2006 Ray Strode - 1:2.14.4-1.fc5.3

- Add BuildRequires on xorg-x11-server-Xorg (bug 194295)

* Tue Jun 6 2006 Matthias Clasen - 1:2.14.4-1.fc.2

- Require system-logos, not fedora-logos

- Add missing BuildRequires

5e88148d3c4a3f6559fa38d31cb7fde6ce35621c SRPMS/gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5.src.rpm

5e88148d3c4a3f6559fa38d31cb7fde6ce35621c noarch/gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5.src.rpm

ef7241475d123ab982add4c79cc638ec7041e36c ppc/gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5.ppc.rpm

055bcfcd9a9e35842db1b7f12ce951442003498b ppc/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.14.11-1.fc5.ppc.rpm

318baf29dfaa15b838af076b26452fcf92f061ec x86_64/gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm

719f0e00272f843cd62122eda1d2669454a04669 x86_64/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.14.11-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm

1537e747a82c582081ccac330ad99428069fa797 i386/gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5.i386.rpm

b3a40b2f38fd33cf237f7f2359cd6db67a614983 i386/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.14.11-1.fc5.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update

package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing

Software with yum,' available at .

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora system update GDM memory exposure user input

Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Name: gdm
Version: 2.14.11
Release: 1.fc5
Summary: The GNOME Display Manager.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora system update GDM memory exposure user input

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