CVE-2001-0191 (GCVE-0-2001-0191)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2001-05-07 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 04:14
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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