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MandrakeSoft Security Advisory MDKSA-2003:034 : rxvt

 

March 25th, 2003

Updated rxvt packages fix escape sequence insecurities

 

Digital Defense Inc. released a paper detailing insecurities in variousterminal emulators, including rxvt.Many of the features supported bythese programs can be abused when untrusted data is displayed on thescreen.This abuse can be anything from garbage data being displayedto the screen or a system compromise.

 

 

The released versions of Mandrake GNU/Linux affected are:

  • 8.2

 

[*] 8.2/PPC

 

[*] 9.0

 

[*] 9.1

 

[*] 9.1/PPC

 

[*] Corporate Server 2.1

Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at:

www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2003:034

 

Other references are:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?n...e=CAN-2003-0022

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?n...e=CAN-2003-0066

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?n...e=CAN-2003-0023

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=...12710031920&w=2

 

Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v0.0.4)

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