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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-0059
2009-01-07 06:44:26
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Name : xterm
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 238
Release : 1.fc9
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.
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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.
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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
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #479000 - xterm executes arbitrary commands
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479000
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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
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