Debian: DSA 496-1 Moderate Advisory on Eterm Remote Threat

H.D. Moore discovered several terminal emulator security issues. One
of them covers escape codes that are interepreted by the terminal
emulator. This could be exploited by an attacker to insert malicious
commands hidden for the user, who has to hit enter to continue, which
would also execute the hidden commands.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.2-0pre2002042903.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version eterm-0.9.2-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your eterm package.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


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