National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0549
Original release date:08/27/2003
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) support for GDM before 2.4.1.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a short authorization key name.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2003:259
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2003:258
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2003-August/msg00045.html
External Source: CONECTIVA
Name: CLA-2003:729
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:129
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:129
Type: Tool Signature
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:129
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5