A Security Vulnerability in the xterm(1) program Delivered With OpenSolaris Involving the Parsing of Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) Sequences May Lead to Execution of Arbitrary Code

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A Security Vulnerability in the xterm(1) program delivered with OpenSolaris Involving the Parsing of Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) Sequences May Lead to Execution of Arbitrary Code

1. Impact

A security vulnerability in the xterm(1) program delivered with OpenSolaris related to the interpretation of certain Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) sequences may allow unprivileged local or remote users to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running xterm(1).

This issue is described in the following document:


2. Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_91 through snv_106

x86 Platform

• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_91 through snv_106

Note: Solaris 8, 9 and 10 are not impacted by this issue.

OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the build from which it was derived. The base build can be derived as follows:

$ uname -v
snv_101

3. Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms to indicate that the described issue has been exploited to execute arbitrary code.

4. Workaround

There is no workaround for this issue. Please see the "Resolution" section below.

5. Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_107 or later

x86 Platform

• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_107 or later

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