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CVE-2000-0491in critical feed2 exploits

Buffer overflow in the XDMCP parsing code of GNOME gdm, KDE kdm, and wdm allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a d…

Published 26 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
10.0
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
17.8%
percentile 97%
Public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

17.78% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-19948 gdm 1.0.x/2.0.x BETA/2.2.0 - XDMCP Buffer Overflow (2) · remote · 2000-05-22
  • EDB-19947 gdm 1.0.x/2.0.x BETA/2.2.0 - XDMCP Buffer Overflow (1) · remote · 2000-05-22

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.010.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

  • archives.neohapsis.com /archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0025.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/1279 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/1370 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/1233 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • novell.com /linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_49.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE, x_transferred
  • archives.neohapsis.com /archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0241.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred

Sources

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