PT-2014-3322 · Gnome · Gnome Display Manager

Published 2014-04-29 · Updated 2014-04-30 · CVE-2013-7273

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNOME Display Manager (gdm) versions 3.4.1 and earlier

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, making it impossible to login, by pressing the cancel button after entering a user name when the disable-user-list is set to true.

Recommendations For versions 3.4.1 and earlier, consider setting disable-user-list to false as a temporary workaround to prevent the denial of service issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-7273

Affected Products

Gnome Display Manager

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7273 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7273 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7273 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-7273 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/16 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683338 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/10 · Note
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704284 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050745 · Note