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Fedora 33: 2021-71556a5722 Critical Fix for mrxvt Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey August 1, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora has rolled out an update for mrxvt that patches CVE-2021-33477, significantly improving terminal security and user safety.
Fix for CVE-2021-33477

Summary

Mrxvt (previously materm) is based on 2.7.11 CVS of rxvt and aterm.

Fix for CVE-2021-33477

* Fri Jul 23 2021 Mamoru TASAKA - 0.5.3-31

- Patch for CVE-2021-33477 (bug 1961794)

* Thu Jul 22 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.5.3-30

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.5.3-29

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1961796 - CVE-2021-33477 mrxvt: rxvt-unicode: possible remote code execution [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961796

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-71556a5722' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 0.5.3
Release: 31.fc33
URL: Summary : A lightweight multi-tabbed terminal emulator for X

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