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CVE-2009-2697

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-09-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The Red Hat build script for the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) before 2.16.0-56 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 omits TCP Wrapper support, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via XDMCP connections, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5079.

Affected products

• GNOME gdm: through 2.16; 0.7, 1.0, 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 (+6)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/36553
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36219
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239818
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9586
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1364.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36553
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36219
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239818
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9586
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1364.html

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