CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10.0. It affects Windows. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2001-0191
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
10
EPSS
5.50%
Windows
Original NVD 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.