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| <title>Multiple X11 terminals: Local privilege escalation</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| A vulnerability was found in aterm, Eterm, Mrxvt, multi-aterm, RXVT, |
| rxvt-unicode, and wterm, allowing for local privilege escalation. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">aterm eterm rxvt mrxvt multi-aterm wterm rxvt-unicode</product> |
| <announced>May 07, 2008</announced> |
| <revised>May 10, 2008: 02</revised> |
| <bug>216833</bug> |
| <bug>217819</bug> |
| <bug>219746</bug> |
| <bug>219750</bug> |
| <bug>219754</bug> |
| <bug>219760</bug> |
| <bug>219762</bug> |
| <access>local</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="x11-terms/aterm" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">1.0.1-r1</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.1-r1</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| <package name="x11-terms/eterm" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">0.9.4-r1</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.4-r1</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| <package name="x11-terms/mrxvt" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">0.5.3-r2</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">0.5.3-r2</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| <package name="x11-terms/multi-aterm" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">0.2.1-r1</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">0.2.1-r1</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| <package name="x11-terms/rxvt" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">2.7.10-r4</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">2.7.10-r4</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| <package name="x11-terms/rxvt-unicode" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">9.02-r1</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">9.02-r1</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| <package name="x11-terms/wterm" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">6.2.9-r3</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">6.2.9-r3</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| Aterm, Eterm, Mrxvt, multi-aterm, RXVT, rxvt-unicode, and wterm are X11 |
| terminal emulators. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| Bernhard R. Link discovered that RXVT opens a terminal on :0 if the |
| "-display" option is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable |
| is not set. Further research by the Gentoo Security Team has shown that |
| aterm, Eterm, Mrxvt, multi-aterm, rxvt-unicode, and wterm are also |
| affected. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p> |
| A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to hijack X11 |
| terminals of other users. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no known workaround at this time. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| All aterm users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-terms/aterm-1.0.1-r1"</code> |
| <p> |
| All Eterm users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-terms/eterm-0.9.4-r1"</code> |
| <p> |
| All Mrxvt users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-terms/mrxvt-0.5.3-r2"</code> |
| <p> |
| All multi-aterm users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-terms/multi-aterm-0.2.1-r1"</code> |
| <p> |
| All RXVT users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-terms/rxvt-2.7.10-r4"</code> |
| <p> |
| All rxvt-unicode users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.02-r1"</code> |
| <p> |
| All wterm users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-terms/wterm-6.2.9-r3"</code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1142">CVE-2008-1142</uri> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1692">CVE-2008-1692</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:00:54 +0000"> |
| keytoaster |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:12:03 +0000"> |
| keytoaster |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:21 +0000"> |
| keytoaster |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |