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Security ERRATA Low: gdm on SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:45:37 -0500
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Synopsis:	Low: gdm security and bug fix update
Issue date:	2010-08-26
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-5079

A flaw was found in the way the gdm package was built. The gdm package 
was missing TCP wrappers support on 64-bit platforms, which could result 
in an administrator believing they had access restrictions enabled when 
they did not. (CVE-2007-5079)

This update also fixes the following bug:

* sometimes the system would hang instead of properly shutting down when
a user chose "Shut down" from the login screen. (BZ#625818)

GDM must be restarted for this update to take effect. Rebooting achieves 
this, but changing the runlevel from 5 to 3 and back to 5 also restarts GDM.

SL 4.x

     SRPMS:
gdm-2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.19.el4_8.2.src.rpm
     i386:
gdm-2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.19.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
     x86_64:
gdm-2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.19.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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