CVE-2000-0476

Summary

CVECVE-2000-0476
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2000-06-01 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2008-09-10 19:04:00 UTC
Descriptionxterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by embedding certain escape characters which force the window to be resized.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Michael Jennings Eterm 0.8.10 All All All
Application Michael Jennings Eterm 0.8.10 All All All
Application Putty Putty 0.48 All All All
Application Putty Putty 0.48 All All All
Application Rxvt Rxvt 2.6.1 All All All
Application Rxvt Rxvt 2.6.1 All All All
Application Xfree86 Project X11r6 3.3.3 All All All
Application Xfree86 Project X11r6 4.0 All All All
Application Xfree86 Project X11r6 3.3.3 All All All
Application Xfree86 Project X11r6 4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
20000601 [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack BUGTRAQ archives.neohapsis.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Multiple Vendor xterm (and derivatives) Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
20000601 [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack BUGTRAQ archives.neohapsis.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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