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Slackware 12.x: 2009-069-03 Critical Command Execution in Xterm

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2009
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Updated xterm modules for Slackware resolve a significant security vulnerability that permits unauthorized command execution from user directories. Please upgrade immediately!
New xterm packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xterm-241-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz: Upgraded to xterm-241. This fixes a vulnerability where displaying a file containing DECRQSS (Device Control Request Status String) sequences could cause arbitrary commands to be executed as the user running xterm. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2383 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical command execution slackware xterm patching

Where Find New Packages

HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/xterm-241-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/xterm-241-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/xterm-241-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware -current:

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Slackware 12.0 package: f9fac14482cb0799bcc9e0174eeb959e xterm-241-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package: 5da769ba1fe03bfc878adac06e44caaf xterm-241-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: ab97395b148fa1441bf01847f37e7b56 xterm-241-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware -current package: bb5b9a0774ff62a7abb728b60209aa5e xterm-241-i486-1.tgz

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security advisory update critical command execution slackware xterm patching

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg xterm-241-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz