Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2000-0476 (CCN-4987)

Assigned:2000-05-31
Published:2000-05-31
Updated:2008-09-10
Summary: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.
CVSS v3 Severity:5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Low
CVSS v2 Severity:5.0 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
5.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
Vulnerability Type:CWE-Other
Vulnerability Consequences:Denial of Service
References:Source: BUGTRAQ
Type: Patch, Vendor Advisory
20000601 [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack

Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Jun 01 2000 - 13:21:16 CDT
[rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack

Source: BUGTRAQ
Type: UNKNOWN
20000601 [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack

Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Jun 01 2000 - 21:29:46 CDT
Re: [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack

Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Sun Jun 04 2000 - 11:35:27 CDT
Re: [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack

Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Jun 06 2000 - 04:28:28 CDT
Re: [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2000-0476

Source: CCN
Type: PuTTY Web site
PuTTY: A Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client

Source: CCN
Type: Floosietek Ltd. Web site
Welcome to the new Eterm.Org, the official home of Eterm on the web!

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 83441
rxvt Embedded Escape Character Handling DoS

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 83442
XFree86 X11R6 Embedded Escape Character Handling DoS

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 83443
Eterm Embedded Escape Character Handling DoS

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 8348
PuTTY xterm Client Embedded Escape Character DoS

Source: BID
Type: Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
1298

Source: CCN
Type: BID-1298
Multiple Vendor xterm (and derivatives) Denial of Service Vulnerability

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
xterm-control-characters-dos(4987)

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:michael_jennings:eterm:0.8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:putty:putty:0.48:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:rxvt:rxvt:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:xfree86_project:x11r6:3.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration CCN 1:
  • cpe:/a:michael_jennings:eterm:0.8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:rxvt:rxvt:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:putty:putty:0.48:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

    • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    BACK
    michael_jennings eterm 0.8.10
    putty putty 0.48
    rxvt rxvt 2.6.1
    xfree86_project x11r6 3.3.3
    xfree86_project x11r6 4.0
    michael_jennings eterm 0.8.10
    rxvt rxvt 2.6.1
    putty putty 0.48