FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-1362

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: gdm-2.18.4-1.fc7
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-1362 2007-07-31 15:55:29.098638

Name       : gdm Product    : Fedora 7 Version    : 2.18.4 Release    : 1.fc7 Summary    : The GNOME Display Manager Description : 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.

Update Information:

JLANTHEA reported a denial of service flaw in the way that gdm listens on its unix domain socket. Any local user can crash the locally running X session.

ChangeLog:

- Update to 2.18.4 - Fixes CVE-2007-3381 - Update to 2.18.3 - Update to 2.18.2 - Drop upstreamed patches
 * Tue Jul 31 2007 Ray Strode  - 1:2.18.4-1
 * Fri Jul 6 2007 Matthias Clasen  - 1:2.18.3-1
 * Tue May 29 2007 Matthias Clasen  - 1:2.18.2-1

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #250277 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250277 [ 2 ] CVE-2007-3381 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3381

Updated packages:

7472afda810a65c2e0d48b18322c1a4549581296 gdm-debuginfo-2.18.4-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm 5927a6435065cc608be63483eed8a3e701dc4693 gdm-extra-faces-2.18.4-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm bce7fa92272ae87eb201f2f1992853b9ff1ff08e gdm-2.18.4-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm c8cf04d04b060ff515350bdd8d31e329bc3440ee gdm-extra-faces-2.18.4-1.fc7.i386.rpm a708986515973074ce43a3bb657e3aa83e2bbd9f gdm-debuginfo-2.18.4-1.fc7.i386.rpm fd30915168956cb18f5b8f9c2c1f1ad88f5ed2c9 gdm-2.18.4-1.fc7.i386.rpm 286a0fea7ce9b21e0517fed3141ca8e1e459208b gdm-debuginfo-2.18.4-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm 139dc746e3e5bc06b66621a255c98c518174a7c0 gdm-2.18.4-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm 8c4bd659684632b16c8f725b1fea16189f8f9698 gdm-extra-faces-2.18.4-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm be41ce6f4989be45c6fc8803f425fae2f719a8c3 gdm-debuginfo-2.18.4-1.fc7.ppc.rpm ef92c79441e33abf141f6ea24f15095296e1e0c5 gdm-2.18.4-1.fc7.ppc.rpm bd895ec4af9dd543b904fc2e29835fa63b7c2cf9 gdm-extra-faces-2.18.4-1.fc7.ppc.rpm 3b693f08837c73f774b2f302327738dd290c277e gdm-2.18.4-1.fc7.src.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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.