Debian DSA-042-1 : gnuserv

Klaus Frank has found a vulnerability in the way gnuserv handled remote connections. Gnuserv is a remote control facility for Emacsen which is available as standalone program as well as included in XEmacs21. Gnuserv has a buffer for which insufficient boundary checks were made. Unfortunately this...

CVE-2001-0191

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...

[SECURITY] [DSA 042-1] New XEmacs and gnuserv packages available

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-042-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 8, 2001 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Packages : gnuserv,...

Remote vulnerability in gnuserv/XEmacs

SUMMARY All currently available versions of gnuserv for unix prior to 3.12 are vulnerable to remote exploit due to a buffer overflow and weak security. Gnuserv is a remote control facility for Emacsen. Gnuserv ships with XEmacs but is also available stand-alone from various sources for use with G...