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eterm, vte: dangerous interception of escape sequences

Package(s):vte, eterm CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0021 CAN-2003-0068 CAN-2003-0070
Created:March 3, 2003 Updated:April 1, 2003
Description: From the advisory: "Many of the features supported by popular terminal emulator software can be abused when un-trusted data is displayed on the screen. The impact of this abuse can range from annoying screen garbage to a complete system compromise. All of the issues below are actually documented features, anyone who takes the time to read over the man pages or source code could use them to carry out an attack."
Alerts:
Mandrake MDKSA-2003:040 2003-04-01
Gentoo 200303-1 2003-03-03
Gentoo 200303-2 2003-03-03

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