Updated xterm package fixes security vulnerability
Publication date: 02 Mar 2021Modification date: 02 Mar 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-27135
Description
xterm through Patch #365 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
UTF-8 character sequence. (CVE-2021-27135).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28391
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4746-1
- https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2558
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/35LK2ZXEIJUOGOA7FV2TJL3L6LFJ4X5S/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27135
SRPMS
7/core
- xterm-344-1.1.mga7
8/core
- xterm-363-1.1.mga8