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.
Published: 2000-07-12
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 9.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2000-0475 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.
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Michael Jennings Eterm
Putty Putty
Rxvt Rxvt
Xfree86 Project X11r6
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:21:31.299Z

Reserved: 2000-07-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2000-0476

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Status : Modified

Published: 2000-06-01T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2000-0476

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