Published: 01/06/2000 Updated: 10/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 505

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

xterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an malicious user to cause a denial of service by embedding certain escape characters which force the window to be resized.

Vulnerable Product	Search on Vulmon	Subscribe to Product
putty putty 0.48
xfree86 project x11r6 3.3.3
xfree86 project x11r6 4.0
michael jennings eterm 0.8.10
rxvt rxvt 2.6.1

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1298/info xterm is a popular X11-based terminal emulator If VT control-characters are displayed in the xterm, they can be interpreted and used to cause a denial of service attack against the client (and even the host running the client) What makes it possible for remote users to exploit this vulnerability ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0409.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1298 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0420.html https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19984/

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