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CVE-2009-2697

Date: September 4, 2009

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (8)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239818
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1364.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9586
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36219
http://secunia.com/advisories/36553
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2697
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-2697
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-2697

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Authentication Issues

CWE-287

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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