CVE-2000-0476

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 24 years ago

2000-06-01 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:04:00

Affected Software

PuTTY 0.48

0.48

References

20000601 [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20000601 [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack

1298

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

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