Vulnerability in Gnome Gdm

CVE-2003-0794

GDM 2.4.4.x before 2.4.4.4, and 2.4.1.x before 2.4.1.7, does not limit the number or duration of commands and uses a blocking socket connection, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by sending commands and not reading the results.

EPSS: 0.004 (28.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Gnome Gdm — versions 2.2.5.4, 2.4.1, 2.4.1.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRAKE)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CONECTIVA)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)