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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:2011-1 Critical: xterm Buffer Overflow

opensuse
Calendar Grey July 9, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant patch for gnome-terminal has been released, fixing a severe stack overflow flaw.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for xterm fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-27135: Fixed buffer-overflow when clicking on selected utf8

text. (bsc#1182091)

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2011=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

xterm-330-11.3.1

xterm-bin-330-11.3.1

xterm-bin-debuginfo-330-11.3.1

xterm-debugsource-330-11.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-27135.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182091

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2011-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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