CVE-2000-0476 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2000-0476

xterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an attacker to cause a...

Vulnerability Description

xterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by embedding certain escape characters which force the window to be resized.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

michael jennings

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Affected Software

eterm, putty, rxvt, x11r6
Vulnerable Versions:
0.8.10, 0.48, 2.6.1, 3.3.3, 4.0

Timeline

Official Publish: July 12th, 2000
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 17th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.