CVE-2003-0063 Information

Description

The xterm terminal emulator in XFree86 4.2.0 and earlier allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape sequence and then insert it back to the command line in the user’s terminal e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0093.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2 http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-380 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11414.php http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-064.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-065.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-066.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-067.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6940