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USN-703-1: xterm vulnerabilities

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USN-703-1: xterm vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/02/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via LF (aka \n) characters surrounding a command name within a Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) escape sequence in a text file, a related issue to CVE-2003-0063 and CVE-2003-0071.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-xterm

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