CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
10.1%
JLANTHEA reported a denial of service flaw in the way that gdm listens on its unix domain socket. Any local user can crash the locally running X session.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2007-1362.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(27712);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-3381");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2007-1362");
script_name(english:"Fedora 7 : gdm-2.18.4-1.fc7 (2007-1362)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"JLANTHEA reported a denial of service flaw in the way that gdm listens
on its unix domain socket. Any local user can crash the locally
running X session.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2007-July/003020.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e2a45589"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Update the affected gdm, gdm-debuginfo and / or gdm-extra-faces
packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gdm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gdm-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gdm-extra-faces");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/07/31");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/06");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 7.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"gdm-2.18.4-1.fc7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"gdm-debuginfo-2.18.4-1.fc7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"gdm-extra-faces-2.18.4-1.fc7")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_note(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "gdm / gdm-debuginfo / gdm-extra-faces");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | gdm | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gdm |
fedoraproject | fedora | gdm-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gdm-debuginfo |
fedoraproject | fedora | gdm-extra-faces | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gdm-extra-faces |
fedoraproject | fedora | 7 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7 |