- Description
- The default configuration of xterm on Debian GNU/Linux sid and possibly Ubuntu enables the allowWindowOps resource, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code or have unspecified other impact via escape sequences.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9.3
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-16
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
- Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the xterm package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5, and the version of the XFree86 (providing xterm) and hanterm-xf packages, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.
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