The GDM daemon in GNOME Display Manager (GDM) before 2.14.13, 2.16.x before 2.16.7, 2.18.x before 2.18.4, and 2.19.x before 2.19.5 does not properly handle NULL return values from the g_strsplit function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (persistent daemon crash) via a crafted command to the daemon's socket, related to (1) gdm.c and (2) gdmconfig.c in daemon/, and (3) gdmconfig.c and (4) gdmflexiserver.c in gui/.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.1 | 2.14.1.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.5 | 2.5.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.2 | 2.2.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.8 | 2.14.8.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.11 | 2.14.11.x |
| gnome / gdm | - | 2.14.12.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.13 | 2.13.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.4 | 2.4.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.2 | 2.14.2.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.5 | 2.14.5.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.3 | 2.3.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.6 | 2.6.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.8 | 2.8.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.6 | 2.14.6.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.4 | 2.14.4.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.7 | 2.14.7.x |
| gnome / gdm | 1.0 | 1.0.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.9 | 2.14.9.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14 | 2.14.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.10 | 2.14.10.x |
| gnome / gdm | 0.7 | 0.7.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.14.3 | 2.14.3.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.0 | 2.0.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.16.2 | 2.16.2.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.16 | 2.16.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.16.1 | 2.16.1.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.18.1 | 2.18.1.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.18.3 | 2.18.3.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.18.2 | 2.18.2.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.18 | 2.18.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.19.3 | 2.19.3.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.19 | 2.19.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.19.4 | 2.19.4.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.19.2 | 2.19.2.x |
| gnome / gdm | 2.19.1 | 2.19.1.x |