PT-2000-1417 · Rxvt+2 · Rxvt+2

Published 2000-06-01 · Updated 2024-06-10 · CVE-2000-0476

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions xterm versions (affected versions not specified) Eterm versions (affected versions not specified) rxvt versions (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by embedding certain escape characters, which force the window to be resized.

Recommendations For xterm, consider restricting the use of escape characters to minimize the risk of exploitation. For Eterm, avoid using the affected escape characters until the issue is resolved. For rxvt, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the resizing feature based on escape characters until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0476

Affected Products

Eterm

Rxvt

Xterm

References · 12

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/1298 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/19984 · Exploit
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0409.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0476 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-0476 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1799825828567515323 · Twitter Post
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/1 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/82478 · Telegram Post
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/2 · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0420.html · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/82597 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/oss_security/status/1799906337238712386 · Twitter Post