CVE-2000-0491
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 18%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDJul 12
1st PoCMay 22
exploitation probability
18%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/19947exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/19948⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/security/CSSA-2000-013.0.txthttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0241.htmlhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0025.htmlhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_49.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1233http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1279http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1370