CVE-2013-7273

gdm: local DoS possible when cancelling and disable-user-list=true when fallback greeter is used

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · July 30, 2012

Updated · January 8, 2026

Description

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 3.4.1 and earlier, when disable-user-list is set to true, allows local users to cause a denial of service (unable to login) by pressing the cancel button after entering a user name.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified