USN-962-1: VTE vulnerability

15 July 2010

arbitrary command execution via terminal escape codes

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Releases

Packages

  • vte - Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0

Details

Janne Snabb discovered that applications using VTE, such as gnome-terminal,
did not correctly filter window and icon title request escape codes. If a
user were tricked into viewing specially crafted output in their terminal,
a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands with user privileges.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

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