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Fedora 10 : xterm-238-1.fc10 (2009-0091)

high Nessus Plugin ID 36641

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes the following security issue: 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.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected xterm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479000

http://www.nessus.org/u?d5058f2b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 36641

File Name: fedora_2009-0091.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xterm

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2009

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2009-0091