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Debian Security Advisory DSA 082-1 (xvt)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xvt announced via advisory DSA 082-1.
Insight
Insight
Christophe Bailleux reported on bugtraq that Xvt is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in its argument handling. Since Xvt is installed setuid root, it was possible for a normal user to pass carefully-crafted arguments to xvt so that xvt executed a root shell. This problem has been fixed by the maintainer in version 2.1-13 of xvt for Debian unstable and 2.1-13.0potato.1 for the stable Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. We recommend that you upgrade your xvt package immediately.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20082-1