Vulnerability in Caldera Openlinux
CVE-2000-0491
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.178 (97.1th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.178 · newest: 0.178 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Caldera Openlinux
- GNOME Gdm — versions 1.0
- SUSE Linux — versions 6.2, 6.4
References
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0025.html (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/1279 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/1370 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/1233 (vdb-entry)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_49.html (vendor-advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0241.html (mailing-list)