Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting gdm package, versions [1.0,1.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.16% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GDM-2370026
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Jun 2000
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jun 2000

CVE-2000-0504  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for gdm.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) libICE in XFree86 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by specifying a large value which is not properly checked by the SKIP_STRING macro.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1