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.
Published: 2001-05-07
Score: 10.0 Critical
EPSS: 1.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:14:06.863Z

Reserved: 2001-03-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-0191

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Status : Modified

Published: 2001-05-03T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2001-0191

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Publid Date: 2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2001-0191 - Bugzilla

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