Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in gnuserv before 3.12

CVE-2001-0191 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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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