Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-0154 (xterm)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: xterm-238-1.fc8 | |
| Date: | Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:25:00 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20090107092500.9286A208DEA@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-0154 2009-01-07 06:46:14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : xterm Product : Fedora 8 Version : 238 Release : 1.fc8 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 * Wed Jul 30 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 236-1 - update to 236 - enable support for spawn-new-terminal action (#457130) * Tue Apr 22 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 235-1 - update to 235 * Mon Mar 3 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 234-1 - update to 234 * Wed Feb 27 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 233-1 - update to 233 * Thu Jan 31 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 232-1 - update to 232 * Mon Jan 7 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 231-1 - update to 231 - remove setgid utempter from xterm binary (#229360) * Fri Jan 4 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 230-1 - update to 230 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...