CVE-2011-0465 Information

Description

xrdb.c in xrdb before 1.0.9 in X.Org X11R7.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from a (1) DHCP or (2) XDMCP message.

Reference

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xrdb/commit/?id=1027d5df07398c1507fb1fe3a9981aa6b4bc3a56 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057928.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2011-April/001635.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2011-April/001636.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/44010 http://secunia.com/advisories/44012 http://secunia.com/advisories/44040 http://secunia.com/advisories/44082 http://secunia.com/advisories/44122 http://secunia.com/advisories/44123 http://secunia.com/advisories/44193 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.465748 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2213 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:076 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0432.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0433.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47189 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025317 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1107-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0880 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0889 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0906 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0929 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0966 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0975 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680196 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66585 https://lwn.net/Articles/437150/