Gentoo: eterm escape sequence vulnerability
Many of the features supported by popular terminal emulator software can be abused when un-trusted data is displayed on the screen.
Summary
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From advisory:
"Many of the features supported by popular terminal emulator software can be abused when un-trusted data is displayed on the screen. The impact of this abuse can range from annoying screen garbage to a complete system compromise. All of the issues below are actually documented features, anyone who takes the time to read over the man pages or source code could use them to carry out an attack."
Read the full advisory at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running x11-terms/eterm upgrade to eterm-0.9.2-r3 as follows:
emerge sync emerge -u eterm emerge clean
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0.9.2
Resolution
References
Availability
Concerns
Severity
PACKAGE : eterm
SUMMARY : dangerous interception of escape sequences
DATE : 2003-03-03 10:13 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <0.9.2 : fixed version>0.9.2
CVE : CAN-2003-0021 CAN-2003-0068
