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openSUSE: 2023:0306-2 Important: rxvt-unicode Vulnerability Exploit

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2023
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Crucial Fedora patch introduces enhancements for gnome-terminal rectifying a moderate level vulnerability, thereby improving security effectively.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for rxvt-unicode fixes the following issues:

- Update to version 9.31: (CVE-2022-4170 boo#1206069)

- implement a fix for CVE-2022-4170 (reported and analyzed by David

Leadbeater). While present in version 9.30, it should not be

exploitable. It is exploitable in versions 9.25 and 9.26, at least,

and allows anybody controlling output to the terminal to execute

arbitrary code in the urxvt process.

- the background extension no longer requires off focus fading support

to be compiled in.

- the confirm-paste extension now offers a choice betwene pasting the

original or a sanitized version, and also frees up memory used to

store the paste text immediately.

- fix compiling without frills.

- fix rewrapMode: never.

- fix regression that caused urxvt to no longer emit responses to OSC

color queries other than OSC 4 ones.

- fix regression that caused urxvt to no longer process OSC 705.

...

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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 Backports SLE-15-SP5:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2023-306=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2023-306=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

rxvt-unicode-9.31-bp155.3.3.1

rxvt-unicode-debuginfo-9.31-bp155.3.3.1

rxvt-unicode-debugsource-9.31-bp155.3.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

rxvt-unicode-9.31-bp154.2.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4170.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1206069

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2023:0306-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 .

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