CVE-2004-0419 Information

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.

Reference

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.htmlxdm 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/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10161