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CentOS Update for gdm CESA-2018:3140 centos7

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

CentOS Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

5 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'gdm' package(s) announced via the CESA-2018:3140 advisory.

Insight

Insight

GNOME is the default desktop environment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Security Fix(es): * libsoup: Crash in soup_cookie_jar.c:get_cookies() on empty hostnames (CVE-2018-12910) * poppler: Infinite recursion in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc:FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph() function allows denial of service (CVE-2017-18267) * libgxps: heap based buffer over read in ft_font_face_hash function of gxps-fonts.c (CVE-2018-10733) * libgxps: Stack-based buffer overflow in calling glib in gxps_images_guess_content_type of gcontenttype.c (CVE-2018-10767) * poppler: NULL pointer dereference in Annot.h:AnnotPath::getCoordsLength() allows for denial of service via crafted PDF (CVE-2018-10768) * poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite (CVE-2018-13988) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Red Hat would like to thank chenyuan (NESA Lab) for reporting CVE-2018-10733 and CVE-2018-10767 and Hosein Askari for reporting CVE-2018-13988. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Affected Software

Affected Software

gdm on CentOS 7.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Please install the updated package(s).