CVE-2007-3381

Severity: low (CVSS 1.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The GDM daemon in GNOME Display Manager (GDM) before 2.14.13, 2.16.x before 2.16.7, 2.18.x before 2.18.4, and 2.19.x before 2.19.5 does not properly handle NULL return values from the g_strsplit function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (persistent daemon crash) via a crafted command to the daemon's socket, related to (1) gdm.c and (2) gdmconfig.c in daemon/, and (3) gdmconfig.c and (4) gdmflexiserver.c in gui/.

Affected products

GNOME gdm: through 2.14.12; 0.7, 1.0, 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 (+28)

References

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.14/gdm-2.14.13.news
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.16/gdm-2.16.7.changes
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.18/gdm-2.18.4.news
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.19/gdm-2.19.5.news
http://secunia.com/advisories/26313
http://secunia.com/advisories/26368
http://secunia.com/advisories/26520
http://secunia.com/advisories/26879
http://secunia.com/advisories/26900
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-11.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:169
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0777.html

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