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Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:005 (xterm)

🗓️ 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2009 E-Soft Inc.Type 
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Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:005 xterm vulnerabilit

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63139");
  script_version("2023-07-19T05:05:15+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-19 05:05:15 +0000 (Wed, 19 Jul 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-01-13 22:38:32 +0100 (Tue, 13 Jan 2009)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2383");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.3");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_name("Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:005 (xterm)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 E-Soft Inc.");
  script_family("Mandrake Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/mandriva_mandrake_linux", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=MNDK_(2008\.0|2008\.1|2009\.0|3\.0|4\.0)");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A vulnerability has been discovered in xterm, which can be exploited
by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability
is due to xterm not properly processing the DECRQSS Device
Control Request Status String escape sequence. This can be exploited
to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands by e.g. tricking a
user into displaying a malicious text file containing a specially
crafted escape sequence via the more command in xterm (CVE-2008-2383).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:005");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to xterm
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:005.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xterm", rpm:"xterm~229~2.1mdv2008.0", rls:"MNDK_2008.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xterm", rpm:"xterm~232~1.1mdv2008.1", rls:"MNDK_2008.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xterm", rpm:"xterm~236~1.1mdv2009.0", rls:"MNDK_2009.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xterm", rpm:"xterm~184~1.1.C30mdk", rls:"MNDK_3.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xterm", rpm:"xterm~203~1.1.20060mlcs4", rls:"MNDK_4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99);
}

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