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CVE-2009-2697

CVE information

Published

14 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.8/10
Exploit Score
8.6/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
-