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CVE-2003-0071
The DEC UDK processing feature in the xterm terminal emulator in XFree86 4.2.99.4 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of…
Low2.1EPSS 0.42%
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- mitre
Description
The DEC UDK processing feature in the xterm terminal emulator in XFree86 4.2.99.4 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a certain character escape sequence that causes the terminal to enter a tight loop.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 64% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- DSA-380 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:067 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:066 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- terminal-emulator-dec-udk(11415) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20030224 Terminal Emulator Security Issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:064 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 6950 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:065 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20030224 Terminal Emulator Security Issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .