{"id":"CVE-2007-3381","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2007-3381","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:33:06.175Z","title":"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…","description":"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/.","published":"2007-08-07T10:17:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:41:53.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":1.5,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["gnome/gdm"],"epss":{"score":0.00327,"percentile":0.25551,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.33%). 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