9.7 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
9.3 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.022 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.3%
Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the xrdb utility incorrectly filtered
crafted hostnames. An attacker could use this flaw with a malicious
DHCP server or with a remote xdmcp login and execute arbitrary code,
resulting in root privilege escalation.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 9.10 | noarch | x11-xserver-utils | < 7.4+2ubuntu3.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | x11-xserver-utils | < 7.3+2ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 10.10 | noarch | x11-xserver-utils | < 7.5+2ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 10.04 | noarch | x11-xserver-utils | < 7.5+1ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |