CVE-2009-2697

MediumCVSS 6.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.8/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-287

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Sep 4, 2009
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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