Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200805-03 (aterm eterm rxvt mrxvt multi-aterm wterm rxvt-unicode)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200805-03. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[ GLSA 200805-03 ] Multiple X11 terminals: Local privilege escalation

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CVE-2008-1692

CVE-2008-1692 affects several X11 terminal emulators (Eterm 0.9.4; and also aterm, rxvt, rxvt-unicode, wterm, Mrxvt, multi-aterm) used on X displays. The root cause is that Eterm opens a :0 terminal when -display is not provided and DISPLAY is unset, enabling a local attacker to hijack X11 termin...