CVE-2009-2697

CVE-2009-2697 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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