CVE-2008-2383 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510030 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33318 http://secunia.com/advisories/33388 http://secunia.com/advisories/33397 http://secunia.com/advisories/33418 http://secunia.com/advisories/33419 http://secunia.com/advisories/33568 http://secunia.com/advisories/33820 http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-254208-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1694 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0018.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0019.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33060 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021522 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47655 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9317 https://usn.ubuntu.com/703-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00072.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00184.html