CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2697

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2009-09-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-09-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• gnome gdm (<= 2.16) • gnome gdm 0.7 • gnome gdm 1.0 • gnome gdm 2.0 • gnome gdm 2.2 • gnome gdm 2.3 • gnome gdm 2.4 • gnome gdm 2.5 • gnome gdm 2.6 • gnome gdm 2.8 • gnome gdm 2.13 • gnome gdm 2.14 • gnome gdm 2.15

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References