CVE-2000-0476: Michael Jennings Eterm

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Michael Jennings Eterm: version 0.8.10 only
• Putty Putty: version 0.48 only
• Rxvt Rxvt: version 2.6.1 only
• XFREE86 Project x11r6: version 3.3.3 only; version 4.0 only

Published 2000-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.