Auth bypass in Gnome Gdm
CVE-2009-2697
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.
Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication
EPSS: 0.018 (76.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Gnome Gdm — versions 0.7, 1.0, 2.0
- Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 5
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)