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.

Date published : 2001-05-07

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-02/0030.html

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-019.php3