CVE-2000-0491

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in the XDMCP parsing code of GNOME gdm, KDE kdm, and wdm allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service via a long FORWARD_QUERY request.

Buffer overflow in the XDMCP parsing code of GNOME gdm, KDE kdm, and wdm allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service via a long FORWARD_QUERY request.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

SuSE SuSE Linux

First reported 24 years ago

2000-05-24 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:04:00

Affected Software

SuSE SuSE Linux 6.2

6.2

SuSE SuSE Linux 6.4

6.4

References

CSSA-2000-013.0

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20000521 "gdm" remote hole

20000607 Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - gdm

20000524 Security hole in gdm <= 2.0beta4-25

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