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.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Eterm 0.8.10 / rxvt 2.6.1 / PuTTY 0.48 / X11R6 3.3.3/4.0 - Denial of Service EDB-19984 · dos · May 31, 2000 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20000601 Re: [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack mailing-list
- 20000601 [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack mailing-list
- 1298 vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20240609 vte 0.76.3 released with fix for CVE-2024-37535 mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20240609 Re: vte 0.76.3 released with fix for CVE-2024-37535 mailing-list