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FreeBSD Ports: xorg-clients

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following package is affected: xorg-clients CVE-2004-0419 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.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124900 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/ff00f2ce-c54c-11d8-b708-00061bc2ad93.html

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