CVE-2003-0549

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

GNOME gdm: 2.2.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.1.1, 2.4.1.2, 2.4.1.3, 2.4.1.4 (+2)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1
RedHat Kdebase: 2.0_beta2.45, 2.2.3.1.20, 2.2.3.1.22, 2.4.0.7.13, 2.4.1.3.5
RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000729
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2003-August/msg00045.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-258.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-259.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A129
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000729
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2003-August/msg00045.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-258.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-259.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A129

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