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rxvt - vulnerabilities in the handling of escape sequences
| Package(s): | rxvt |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0022
CAN-2003-0023
CAN-2003-0066
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| Created: | March 17, 2003 |
Updated: | March 26, 2003 |
| Description: |
Rxvt is a color VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System. A number
of issues have been found in the escape sequence handling of Rxvt.
These could be potentially exploited if an attacker can cause carefully
crafted escape sequences to be displayed on a rxvt terminal being used by
their victim.
One of the features which most terminal emulators support is the ability
for the shell to set the title of the window using an escape sequence.
Certain xterm variants, including rxvt, also provide an escape sequence for
reporting the current window title. This essentially takes the current
title and places it directly on the command line. Since it is not
possible to embed a carriage return into the window title itself, the
attacker would have to convince the victim to hit enter for it to process
the title as a command, although the attacker can perform a number of
actions to increase the likelyhood of this happening.
The "screen dump" feature in rxvt 2.7.8 allows attackers to overwrite
arbitrary files via a certain character escape sequence when it is echoed
to a user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the
malicious sequence.
The menuBar feature in rxvt 2.7.8 allows attackers to modify menu options
and execute arbitrary commands via a certain character escape sequence that
inserts the commands into the menu.
Users of Rxvt are advised to upgrade to these errata packages which contain
a patch to disable the title reporting functionality and patches to correct
the other issues. |
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