Vulnerability CVE-2000-0476
Published: 2000-06-01   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Xfree86 project -> X11r6 
RXVT -> RXVT 
Putty -> Putty 
Michael jennings -> Eterm 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1298
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0409.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0420.html
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