From aliz@gentoo.org Mon Mar 3 15:04:52 2003 From: Daniel Ahlberg To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:16:15 +0100 Subject: GLSA: vte (200303-2) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-2 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+YytrfT7nyhUpoZMRAmM4AJ9GiRX6v2zDkr0hftZ5hWc0rP8FtwCfWjsM sM4EOkJZrokHlfOWLABLBgo= =+/3p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----