Advisories
Mandriva Advisories
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| Problem Description |
A vulnerability was discovered in how gdm listens on its unix domain
socket. A local user could crash a running X session by writing
malicious data to gdm's unix domain socket.
Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.
| Updated Packages |
Mandriva Linux 2007
7359520cadf5912aae2ec02a5ba7f90a 2007.0/i586/gdm-2.16.0-2.2mdv2007.0.i586.rpm dabdab3233154e7a135eec43530f1c48 2007.0/i586/gdm-Xnest-2.16.0-2.2mdv2007.0.i586.rpm 4230b66decf554a77e6bed8e2c195de4 2007.0/SRPMS/gdm-2.16.0-2.2mdv2007.0.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64
955f12975076a9b6494ec2e2c5857a00 2007.0/x86_64/gdm-2.16.0-2.2mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm b086cc239aff70523ce10f95ce03d36b 2007.0/x86_64/gdm-Xnest-2.16.0-2.2mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm 4230b66decf554a77e6bed8e2c195de4 2007.0/SRPMS/gdm-2.16.0-2.2mdv2007.0.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2007.1
49975884aecd2c33fe5ac735771d900b 2007.1/i586/gdm-2.18.0-3.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm afc5155f2a72783e030b04743f0935ba 2007.1/i586/gdm-Xnest-2.18.0-3.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm 2f6c6fbfe4c8debbd9a6de7f075f6c86 2007.1/SRPMS/gdm-2.18.0-3.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64
3110df21eab0c41100c6c4f903a1f12b 2007.1/x86_64/gdm-2.18.0-3.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm 4babb9888ab4bf15824870ab336c293c 2007.1/x86_64/gdm-Xnest-2.18.0-3.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm 2f6c6fbfe4c8debbd9a6de7f075f6c86 2007.1/SRPMS/gdm-2.18.0-3.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm
| References |
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3381
| Upgrade |
To upgrade automatically, use MandrivaUpdate.
| Verification |
Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :
rpm --checksig package.rpm
You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.
If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.