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…
- 1.5LowCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 74% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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/.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.5 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
18
- GLSA-200709-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.16/gdm-2.16.7.changes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 26313 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2781 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 25191 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 26879 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10887 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1599 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.14/gdm-2.14.13.news (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 26368 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2007:169 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.18/gdm-2.18.4.news (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20070803 FLEA-2007-0041-1 gdm (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.19/gdm-2.19.5.news (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0777 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1018523 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 26900 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 26520 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-3371 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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