Advisories » MGASA-2014-0202

Updated rxvt-unicode packages fix CVE-2014-3121

Publication date: 02 May 2014
Modification date: 02 May 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-3121

Description

Updated rxvt-unicode package fixes security vulnerability:

rxvt-unicode (aka urxvt) before 9.20 is vulnerable to a user-assisted
arbitrary commands execution issue. This can be exploited by the unprocessed
display of certain escape sequences in a crafted text file or program output.
Arbitrary command sequences can be constructed using this, and unintentionally
executed if used in conjunction with various other escape sequences
(CVE-2014-3121).
                

References

• http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Changes
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/01/8
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13299
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3121

SRPMS

3/core

• rxvt-unicode-9.20-1.mga3

4/core

• rxvt-unicode-9.20-1.mga4