CVE-2003-0070

Public Date:
2003-02-24
Bugzilla:
1616950: CVE-2003-0070 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

VTE, as used by default in gnome-terminal terminal emulator 2.2 and as an option in gnome-terminal 2.0, allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape sequence and then insert it back to the command line in the user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Find out more about CVE-2003-0070 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Linux 8.0 RHSA-2003:053 2003-02-25

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