Gentoo: GLSA-200503-23 Critical: rxvt-unicode Buffer Overflow

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: rxvt-unicode: Buffer overflow Date: March 20, 2005 Bugs: #84680 ID: 200503-23

Synopsis ======= rxvt-unicode is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-terms/rxvt-unicode < 5.3 >= 5.3 < 4.8
========== Rob Holland of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that rxvt-unicode fails to properly check input length.
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