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CVE-2000-0476

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5
5CVSS MEDIUM

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required
User interaction
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0409.html ↗