CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-7236
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-01-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-16
Description
The default configuration of xterm on Debian GNU/Linux sid and possibly Ubuntu enables the allowWindowOps resource, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code or have unspecified other impact via escape sequences.
Affected configurations
• invisible-island xterm nil
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384593 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510030 bugs.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33388 secunia.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/703-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384593 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510030 bugs.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33388 secunia.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/703-1/ usn.ubuntu.com