Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:16:15 +0100
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: GLSA: vte (200303-2)
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-2
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PACKAGE : vte
SUMMARY : dangerous interception of escape sequences
DATE : 2003-03-03 10:16 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <0.10.25
FIXED VERSION : >0.10.25
CVE : CAN-2003-0070
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- 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-libs/vte upgrade to vte-0.10.25 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge -u vte
emerge clean
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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz
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