Vulnerabilities > CVE-2000-0476 - Denial of Service vulnerability in Multiple Vendor xterm (and derivatives)

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

PARTIAL

network

low complexity

exploit available

NVD

Published: 2000-06-01

Updated: 2008-09-10

Summary

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.

Part	Description	Count
Application	Michael_Jennings Michael Jennings Eterm 0.8.10	1
Application	Putty Putty Putty 0.48	1
Application	Rxvt Rxvt Rxvt 2.6.1	1
Application	Xfree86_Project Xfree86 Project X11R6 3.3.3 Xfree86 Project X11R6 4.0	2

description	Eterm 0.8.10,rxvt 2.6.1,PuTTY 0.48,X11R6 3.3.3/4.0 Denial of Service. CVE-2000-0476. Dos exploits for multiple platform
id	EDB-ID:19984
last seen	2016-02-02
modified	2000-05-31
published	2000-05-31
reporter	Kit Knox
source	https://www.exploit-db.com/download/19984/
title	Eterm 0.8.10,rxvt 2.6.1,PuTTY 0.48,X11R6 3.3.3/4.0 - Denial of Service