CVE-2007-3381
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/.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 1.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (26th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-3371)
- Published
- August 7, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-3371 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
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(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26368(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26520(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26879(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26900(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475451/30/5550/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25191
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018523
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2781(Vendor Advisory)
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1599
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10887
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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