CVE-2000-0453 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

XFree86 3.3.x and 4.0 allows a user to cause a denial of service via a negative counter value in a malformed TCP packet that is sent to port 6000.

Published: 2000-07-12

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 5.8% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:3.3.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:3.3.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2000-0452	XFree86 3.3.x and 4.0 allows a user to cause a denial of service via a negative counter value in a malformed TCP packet that is sent to port 6000.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.05761.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2000-012.0.txt
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0223.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1235

History

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Subscriptions

Xfree86 Project X11r6

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2000-07-12T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:21:29.681Z

Reserved: 2000-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2000-0453

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2000-05-18T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2000-0453

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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