Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2001-0191 Details

Description

gnuserv before 3.12, as shipped with XEmacs, does not properly check the specified length of an X Windows MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE cookie, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a buffer overflow, or brute force authentication by using a short cookie length.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-02/0030.html CVEBroken LinkPatchVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6056 CVEThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-019.php3 CVEBroken LinkPatch
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-010.html CVEBroken LinkPatch
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-011.html CVEBroken LinkPatch

see all 10 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
andynorman gnuserv
< 3.12

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:andynorman:gnuserv:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
gnu xemacs
All versions

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:xemacs:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2001-0191
NVD Published Date:
May 3, 2001
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2001-0191 Details - Not Deferred