DSA-2925-1 rxvt-unicode -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2925-1 rxvt-unicode -- security update

Date Reported:

08 May 2014

Affected Packages:

rxvt-unicode

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 746593.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3121.

More information:

Phillip Hallam-Baker discovered that window property values could be queried in rxvt-unicode, resulting in the potential execution of arbitrary commands.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 9.07-2+deb6u1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 9.15-2+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 9.20-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 9.20-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rxvt-unicode packages.