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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2558-1 xterm -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

13 Feb 2021

Affected Packages:

xterm

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 982439.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-27135.

More information:

xterm through Patch #365 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UTF-8 character sequence.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 327-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xterm packages.

For the detailed security status of xterm please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/xterm

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