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Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-653 (gdm)

From:  "Raymond Strode" <rstrode@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: gdm-2.16.5-2.fc6
Date:  Wed, 1 Aug 2007 23:10:13 -0400
Message-ID:  <200708020310.l723ADZu004875@int-mx1.corp.redhat.com>

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-653 2007-08-01 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 6 Name : gdm Version : 2.16.5 Release : 2.fc6 Summary : The GNOME Display Manager Description : Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log into your system with the X Window System running and supports running several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue Jul 31 2007 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> - 1:2.16.5-2 - fix CVE-2007-3381 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... 8325d217b3ec741c1db7c161e609cd60962cb604 SRPMS/gdm-2.16.5-2.fc6.src.rpm 8325d217b3ec741c1db7c161e609cd60962cb604 noarch/gdm-2.16.5-2.fc6.src.rpm f685bec86148df07b3e9a7f6d7de79fd6a6a66e4 ppc/gdm-2.16.5-2.fc6.ppc.rpm 8c083e9c40e8162e395f25df8d653afd697992f9 ppc/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.16.5-2.fc6.ppc.rpm 01892c82ea8f333a83bb147dfa4ede56d8cd14e1 x86_64/gdm-2.16.5-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm 2a8e11a3ef4b1b86b831c1e046762763579a72a8 x86_64/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.16.5-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm 7f4cbe4fd16a6107f20d76230c535c8f11bf9d40 i386/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.16.5-2.fc6.i386.rpm 9f3f94be542c821e36f920cc5d218d730bbf4562 i386/gdm-2.16.5-2.fc6.i386.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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