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GLSA: eterm (200303-1)
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz () gentoo org>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:13:43 +0100
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-1 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : eterm SUMMARY : dangerous interception of escape sequences DATE : 2003-03-03 10:13 UTC EXPLOIT : remote VERSIONS AFFECTED : <0.9.2 FIXED VERSION : >0.9.2 CVE : CAN-2003-0021 CAN-2003-0068 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - From 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." Read the full advisory at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running x11-terms/eterm upgrade to eterm-0.9.2-r3 as follows: emerge sync emerge -u eterm emerge clean - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz () gentoo org - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+YyrSfT7nyhUpoZMRAmQMAJ9l+LP0d7ZiiU/ORWsHe8dfbizcygCfRRaY 0qutlqN466gl7gkPydYcc6c= =W8wR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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