CVE-2008-2383

CVE Details

Release Date:	2009-01-02
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via LF (aka \n) characters surrounding a command name within a Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) escape sequence in a text file, a related issue to CVE-2003-0063 and CVE-2003-0071.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	9.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (xterm)	ELSA-2009-0018	2009-01-07
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (xterm)	ELSA-2009-0018	2009-01-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (xterm)	ELSA-2009-0018	2009-01-07