CVE-2003-0066

The rxvt terminal emulator 2.7.8 and earlier allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape sequence and then insert it back to the command line in the user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence, which could allow the attacker to...

RHEL 2.1 : rxvt (RHSA-2003:055)

Updated rxvt packages are available which fix a number of vulnerabilities in the handling of escape sequences. Updated 12 March 2003 Added packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS Rxvt is a color VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System. A number of issues...

[SECURITY] [DSA-062-1] rxvt buffer overflow

Package : rxvt Problem type : buffer overflow Debian-specific: no Samuel Dralet reported on bugtraq that version 2.6.2 of rxvt a VT102 terminal emulator for X have a buffer overflow in the ttprintf function. A local user could abuse this making rxvt print a special string using that function, for...