CVE-2000-0476 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting terminal emulators like xterm, Eterm, rxvt, and PuTTY. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by embedding specific escape characters, forcing the victim's terminal window to continuously resize. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over a network with low attack complexity, leading to a partial denial of service. While not on the KEV catalog, exploit code exists in ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.8.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:michael_jennings:eterm:0.8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.48CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:putty:putty:0.48:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rxvt:rxvt:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:3.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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