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rxvt-unicode X11 Display Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA30224
Release Date: 2008-05-13
Popularity: 2,462 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:rxvt-unicode 9.x

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Solution:
Do not run rxvt-unicode on untrusted systems.

Restrict local access to trusted users only.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Originally reported by Bernhard R. Link in rxvt. Identified in rxvt-unicode by the Gentoo Linux Security Team.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml

Other References:
SA29576:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29576/

Change Page:
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