CVE-2004-0419

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

XDM in XFree86 opens a chooserFd TCP socket even when DisplayManager.requestPort is 0, which could allow remote attackers to connect to the port, in violation of the intended restrictions.

XDM in XFree86 opens a chooserFd TCP socket even when DisplayManager.requestPort is 0, which could allow remote attackers to connect to the port, in violation of the intended restrictions.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-08-18 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Gentoo Linux 1.4

1.4

References

http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376

12019

1010306

P-001

GLSA-200407-05

Vendor Advisory

MDKSA-2004:073

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20040526 008: SECURITY FIX: May 26, 2004

RHSA-2004:478

10423

Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124900

xdm-socket-gain-access(16264)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10161

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