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CVE-2004-0419

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

XDM in XFree86 opens a chooserFd TCP socket even when DisplayManager.requestPort is 0, which could allow remote attackers to connect to the port, in violation of the intended restrictions.

Affected products

• gentoo Linux: 1.4
• X.Org X11R6: 6.7.0
• Xfree86 Project Xdm: cvs

References

• http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12019
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1010306
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-001.shtml
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200407-05.xml
• http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:073
• http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#xdm
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-478.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10423
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124900
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16264
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10161

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