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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 1, 2000· Updated Apr 16, 2026

CVE-2000-0476

CVE-2000-0476

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.

Affected products

5

Michael Jennings/Eterm
cpe:2.3:a:michael_jennings:eterm:0.8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Putty/Putty
cpe:2.3:a:putty:putty:0.48:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Rxvt/Rxvt
cpe:2.3:a:rxvt:rxvt:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Xorg/X11r62 versions
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:3.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:3.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

5

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0409.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/1298nvdExploitPatchVendor Advisory
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0420.htmlnvd
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/1nvd
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/2nvd

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