Mageia 2021-0094 Moderate: xterm Denial Of Service Threat
mageia
March 2, 2021
xterm through Patch #365 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UTF-8 character sequence
Summary
xterm through Patch #365 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
UTF-8 character sequence. (CVE-2021-27135).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28391
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4746-1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00019.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/35LK2ZXEIJUOGOA7FV2TJL3L6LFJ4X5S/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27135
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/xterm-344-1.1.mga7
- 8/core/xterm-363-1.1.mga8
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Publication date: 02 Mar 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0094.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-27135
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