CVE-2008-1142

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-03-04
Bugzilla:
441462: CVE-2008-1142 rxvt: unsafe defaulting to using :0 when DISPLAY is unset

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

rxvt 2.6.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: it was later reported that rxvt-unicode, mrxvt, aterm, multi-aterm, and wterm are also affected. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.

Find out more about CVE-2008-1142 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-1142

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. Due to the minimal security consequences of this issue, we do not intend to fix this in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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