FKIE_CVE-2003-0070

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2003-03-03 05:00 - Updated: 2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
VTE, as used by default in gnome-terminal terminal emulator 2.2 and as an option in gnome-terminal 2.0, 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 execute arbitrary commands.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0093.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2003/Mar/0010.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11414.phpVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-053.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0093.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2003/Mar/0010.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11414.phpVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-053.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nalin_dahyabhai vte 0.11.21
nalin_dahyabhai vte 0.12.2
nalin_dahyabhai vte 0.14.2
nalin_dahyabhai vte 0.15.0
nalin_dahyabhai vte 0.16.14
nalin_dahyabhai vte 0.17.4
nalin_dahyabhai vte 0.20.5
nalin_dahyabhai vte 0.22.5
nalin_dahyabhai vte 0.24.3
nalin_dahyabhai vte 0.25.1
gnome gnome-terminal 2.0
gnome gnome-terminal 2.2
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