Bug 479000

Summary:	CVE-2008-2383 xterm: arbitrary command injection
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christoph Höger <choeger>
Component:	xterm	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	10	CC:	bugs.michael, mlichvar, pertusus
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Description Christoph Höger 2009-01-06 12:53:33 UTC

Description of problem:
xterm has a security hole that allows attackes to modify files that are displayed in xterm in a way that causes xterm to execute arbitrary commands

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xterm-237-1.fc10.i386

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  open xterm
2.  perl -e 'print "\eP\$q\nwhoami\n\e\\"' > bla.log
3.  cat bla.log

  
Actual results:
whoami is executed

Expected results:
that should not happen

Additional info:
see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510030
there seems to be a patch

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2009-01-06 14:35:18 UTC

xterm-238-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xterm-238-1.fc10

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-01-06 14:36:55 UTC

xterm-238-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xterm-238-1.fc9

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-01-06 14:38:05 UTC

xterm-238-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xterm-238-1.fc8

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-01-07 09:12:09 UTC

xterm-238-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-01-07 09:16:46 UTC

xterm-238-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-01-07 09:24:57 UTC

xterm-238-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.