CVE-2000-0476 — xterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by embeddi

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2000-07-12T04:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-08T05:21:31.299Z

09References

• archives.neohapsis.com — http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0420.html
• archives.neohapsis.com — http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0409.html
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1298
• www.openwall.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/1
• www.openwall.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/2