Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
4

xterm before 375 allows code execution via font ops, e.g., because an OSC 50 response may have Ctrl-g and therefore lead to command execution within the vi line-editing mode of Zsh. NOTE: font ops are not allowed in the xterm default configurations of some Linux distributions.

https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33546415 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/5

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Severity
2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

xterm, including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices, which allows local users to write data to other users' terminals.

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