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Gentoo: GLSA-200709-11 Low: GDM Local Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2007
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Local crash of GDM on Gentoo can disrupt subsequent display management. Users are advised to update.
GDM can be crashed by a local user, preventing it from managing future displays.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: GDM: Local Denial of Service Date: September 18, 2007 Bugs: #187919 ID: 200709-11

Synopsis ======= GDM can be crashed by a local user, preventing it from managing future displays.
Background ========= GDM is the GNOME display manager.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 gnome-base/gdm < 2.18.4 >= 2.18.4 *>= 2.16.7
========== The result of a g_strsplit() call is incorrectly parsed in the files daemon/gdm.c, daemon/gdmconfig.c, gui/gdmconfig.c and gui/gdmflexiserver.c, allowing for a null p...

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