Executive Summary

Summary
Title Updated GDM packages fix minor security issues.
Informations
Name RHSA-2003:259 First vendor Publication 2003-08-21
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2003-08-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-259.html

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:113
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:113
Title: X Display Manager Control Protocol Denial of Service
Description: 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) when a chosen host expires, a different issue than CVE-2003-0549.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2003-0548
Version: 2
Platform(s): Red Hat Linux 9
Product(s): GDM
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:129
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:129
Title: GDM X Display Manager Authorization Vulnerability
Description: 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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2003-0549
Version: 2
Platform(s): Red Hat Linux 9
Product(s): GDM
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8
Application 7
Os 6
Os 1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
6314 GDM XDMCP Host Name Expiration DoS

6313 GDM XDMCP Short Authorization Key DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-07-31 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2003-085.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2004-07-06 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2003-259.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:48:13
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