CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0191

10.0 HIGH Published 2001-05-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-05-03
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
Weaknesses
CWE-120

Description

gnuserv before 3.12, as shipped with XEmacs, does not properly check the specified length of an X Windows MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE cookie, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a buffer overflow, or brute force authentication by using a short cookie length.

Affected configurations

• andynorman gnuserv (< 3.12)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
  • CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency weakness

References