CVE-2000-0476

high

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.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/1

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0420.html

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2000-06-01

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.07478