Gdm vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Gdm is made by Gnome. We track 15 published vulnerabilities in it, across 63 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Gdm, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Gdm's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Gdm flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 18%CVE-2000-0491Critical
Buffer overflow in the XDMCP parsing code of GNOME gdm, KDE kdm, and wdm allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service via a long FORWARD_QUERY request.
- 3.3%CVE-2000-0504Medium
libICE in XFree86 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by specifying a large value which is not properly checked by the SKIP_STRING macro.
- 1.8%CVE-2009-2697Medium
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...
- 1.5%CVE-2003-0549Medium
The X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) support for GDM before 2.4.1.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a short authorization key name.
- 1.5%CVE-2003-0548Medium
The X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) support for GDM before 2.4.1.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) when a chosen host expires, a different issue than CVE-2003-0549.
- 0.4%CVE-2011-1709High
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.32.2, when glib 2.28 is used, enables execution of a web browser with the uid of the gdm account, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving the...
- 0.4%
GDM 2.4.4.x before 2.4.4.4, and 2.4.1.x before 2.4.1.7, does not restrict the size of input, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
- 0.4%
Error messages generated by gdm with the VerboseAuth setting allows an attacker to identify valid users on a system.
- 0.4%CVE-2006-6105Medium
Format string vulnerability in the host chooser window (gdmchooser) in GNOME Foundation Display Manager (gdm) allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a hostname, which are used in...
- 0.4%CVE-2011-0727Medium
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) dmrc or (2) face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/.
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Buffer overflow in the XDMCP parsing code of GNOME gdm, KDE kdm, and wdm allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service via a long FORWARD_QUERY request.
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We track 15 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Gdm, across 63 versions.
None of Gdm's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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