CVE - CVE-2000-0491

CVE-ID
CVE-2000-0491	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
Note: References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between vulnerabilities. The list is not intended to be complete.
BID:1233 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1233 BID:1279 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1279 BID:1370 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1370 BUGTRAQ:20000521 "gdm" remote hole URL:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0241.html BUGTRAQ:20000607 Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - gdm URL:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0025.html CALDERA:CSSA-2000-013.0 URL:~~ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/security/CSSA-2000-013.0.txt~~ (Obsolete source - check if archived by the Wayback Machine) SUSE:20000524 Security hole in gdm <= 2.0beta4-25 URL:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_49.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20000711	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Proposed (20000712)
Votes (Legacy)
MODIFY(2) Frech, Levy NOOP(2) LeBlanc, Wall REVIEWING(2) Christey, Ozancin
Comments (Legacy)
Levy> The BID 1233 vulns is different from the other ones. BID 1233 uses a FORWARD_QUERY request to overflow an in_addr structure via a memmove in daemon/xdmcp.c, gdm_xdmcp_handle_forward_query(). In BID 1370 a buffer is overflowed by a sprintf in xdmcp.c, send_failed(). Frech> XF:gnome-gdm-bo(4530) Christey> MANDRAKE:MDKSA-2001:070 URL:http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-070.php3 Christey> BUGTRAQ:20000527 gdm exploit URL:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=96017189021021&w=2 Consider REDHAT:RHSA-2000:027 Christey> RHSA-2000:027 confirmed via Mark Cox
Proposed (Legacy)
20000712
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