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FS#6008 - security bug in gdm 2.16.3

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Hussam Al-Tayeb (hussam) - Thursday, 14 December 2006, 16:01 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 16 December 2006, 12:46 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

A security bug has been discovered in gdm 2.16.3
It's been fixed in gdm 2.16.4 according to the changelog:

2.16.4 Stuff:

- Fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID
CVE-2006-6105. This fixes a problem where a user can
enter strings like "%08x" into the gdmchooser "Add"j
host button and print out memory. (Brian Cameron)

- Fix for TryExec check in gdmsession to make sure that any
arguments are not passed to g_find_program_in_path since
this causes the function to say it is not executable.
(Brian Cameron)

- Translation updates (Runa Bhattacharjee, Josep Puigdemont
i Casamaj\303\263, Laurent Dhima, I. Felix, David Lodge,
Ani Peter, Rajesh Ranjan, Clytie Siddall, Vincent van
Adrighem)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 23:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Updated to 2.16.4.

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