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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2671-1 rxvt-unicode -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 May 2021

Affected Packages:

rxvt-unicode

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 988763.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-33477.

More information:

rxvt-unicode allow (potentially remote) code execution because of improper handling of certain escape sequences (ESC G Q). A response is terminated by a newline.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 9.22-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rxvt-unicode packages.

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

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