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Debian Wheezy DLA-935-1 Moderate: Lxterminal Local DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2017
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A specific denial of service vulnerability related to lxterminal has been discovered and successfully addressed in the recent package updates for Debian.
It was discovered that there was a local denial of service vulnerability in lxterminal, the terminal emulator for the LXDE desktop environment
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Summary

This was caused by an insecure use of temporary files for a socket file.

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in lxterminal version
0.1.11-4+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lxterminal packages.


Regards,

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Package: lxterminal
Version: 0.1.11-4+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2016-10369
Debian Bug: #862098

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