Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1694-1 xterm -- design flaw
- Date Reported:
- 02 Jan 2009
- Affected Packages:
- xterm
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 510030.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2383. - More information:
-
Paul Szabo discovered that xterm, a terminal emulator for the X Window System, places arbitrary characters into the input buffer when displaying certain crafted escape sequences (CVE-2008-2383).
As an additional precaution, this security update also disables font changing, user-defined keys, and X property changes through escape sequences.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 222-1etch3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your xterm package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xterm/xterm_222-1etch3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.