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CVE-2000-0491

CVE information

Published

23 years ago

Last Modified

15 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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Description

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
10/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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