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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200503-23.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200503-23">
<title>rxvt-unicode: Buffer overflow</title>
<synopsis>
rxvt-unicode is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">rxvt-unicode</product>
<announced>March 20, 2005</announced>
<revised>March 20, 2005: 01</revised>
<bug>84680</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="x11-terms/rxvt-unicode" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">5.3</unaffected>
<unaffected range="lt">4.8</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">5.3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Rob Holland of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered
that rxvt-unicode fails to properly check input length.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to execute
arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running rxvt-unicode.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All rxvt-unicode users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-5.3&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0764">CAN-2005-0764</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:52:07 +0000">
koon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:51:13 +0000">
lewk
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:52:52 +0000">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>