CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0476

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2000-06-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-06-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• michael jennings eterm 0.8.10 • putty putty 0.48 • rxvt rxvt 2.6.1 • xfree86 project x11r6 3.3.3 • xfree86 project x11r6 4.0

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-150 Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences weakness

References