Security update for package rxvt
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(Last modified: 21MAR2003)
solutions Security update for package rxvt SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (8abd7afdfbedea56b9479930b821cd79)
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IBM zSeries
Package: rxvt
Release: 20030321
Obsoletes: none
rxvt
should install this update.rxvt
, a terminal emulator, can be tricked into executing commands.An attacker can send special escape-sequences to
rxvt
(MUA, irc-clients,logfiles, ...) to trigger command execution with the privileges of the
user running
rxvt
.
rpm -Fvh rxvt.rpm
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