CVE-2000-0491

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

24/05/2000

Last modified:

03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

10.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:6.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:6.4:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:6.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:6.4:::::::*

CVE-2000-0491

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools