Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2925-1 rxvt-unicode -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 08 May 2014
- Affected Packages:
- rxvt-unicode
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 746593.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3121. - More information:
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Phillip Hallam-Baker discovered that window property values could be queried in rxvt-unicode, resulting in the potential execution of arbitrary commands.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 9.07-2+deb6u1.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 9.15-2+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 9.20-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 9.20-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your rxvt-unicode packages.