CVE-2009-2697 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/36553 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36219 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239818 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9586 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1364.html