CVE-2007-3381: Gnome Gdm

Low severity, CVSS 1.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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/.

Affected products

• Gnome Gdm: up to and including 2.14.12; version 0.7 only; version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; …

Published 2007-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.