CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0491

10.0 HIGH Published 2000-05-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-05-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

Affected configurations

• gnome gdm 1.0 • caldera openlinux • suse suse linux 6.2 • suse suse linux 6.4

References