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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2000-0453 json

XFree86 3.3.x and 4.0 allows a user to cause a denial of service via a negative counter value in a malformed TCP packet that is sent to por…

published 2000-05-18 26 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2000-0452

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

XFree86 3.3.x and 4.0 allows a user to cause a denial of service via a negative counter value in a malformed TCP packet that is sent to port 6000.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-19950)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

2.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-19950 XFree86 X11R6 3.3.5/3.3.6/4.0 Xserver - Denial of Service dos, 2000-05-18

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.