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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-0091 (xterm)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-0091 2009-01-07 06:45:03 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : xterm Product : Fedora 10 Version : 238 Release : 1.fc10 URL : http://dickey.his.com/xterm Summary : Terminal emulator for the X Window System Description : The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes the following security issue: CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via LF (aka \n) characters surrounding a command name within a Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) escape sequence in a text file, a related issue to CVE-2003-0063 and CVE-2003-0071. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jan 6 2009 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 238-1 - update to 238 (#479000, CVE-2008-2383) - set default values of allowWindowOps and allowFontOps resources to false -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #479000 - xterm executes arbitrary commands https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update xterm' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann... (Log in to post comments)
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