Fedora 10: 2009-0091 Critical: xterm Command Execution Risk

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.

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.

* Tue Jan 6 2009 Miroslav Lichvar 238-1

- update to 238 (#479000, CVE-2008-2383)

- set default values of allowWindowOps and allowFontOps resources to false

[ 1 ] Bug #479000 - xterm executes arbitrary commands

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479000

su -c 'yum update xterm' at the command line.

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