CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1142
3.7 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.7 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• aterm aterm (<= 1.0.0)
• aterm aterm 0.1.0
• aterm aterm 0.1.1
• aterm aterm 0.2.0
• aterm aterm 0.3.0
• aterm aterm 0.3.1
• aterm aterm 0.3.2
• aterm aterm 0.3.3
• aterm aterm 0.3.4
• aterm aterm 0.3.5
• aterm aterm 0.3.6
• aterm aterm 0.4.0
• aterm aterm 0.4.1
• aterm aterm 0.4.2
• aterm aterm 1.00
• eterm eterm (<= 0.9.3)
• eterm eterm 0.9.2
• mrxvt mrxvt (<= 0.5.2)
• mrxvt mrxvt 0.4.2
• multi-aterm multi-aterm (<= 0.2)
• multi-aterm multi-aterm 0.0.1
• multi-aterm multi-aterm 0.0.3
• multi-aterm multi-aterm 0.0.4
• multi-aterm multi-aterm 0.0.5
• multi-aterm multi-aterm 0.1
• rxvt rxvt (<= 2.7.9)
• rxvt rxvt 2.6.1
• rxvt rxvt 2.6.2
• rxvt rxvt 2.6.3
• rxvt rxvt 2.6.4
• rxvt rxvt 2.7.5
• rxvt rxvt 2.7.6
• rxvt rxvt 2.7.7
• rxvt rxvt 2.7.8
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode (<= 9.01)
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.0
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.1
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.2
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.3
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.4
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.5
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.6
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.7
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.8
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.9
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 1.91
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 2.0
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 2.1
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 2.2
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 2.3
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 2.4
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 2.5
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 2.6
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 2.7
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 2.8
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 2.9
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 3.0
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 3.1
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 3.2
• rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode 3.3
… and 55 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/122 article.gmane.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469296 Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29576 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30224 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30225 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30226 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30227 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30229 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:161 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:221 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512 Patch
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/122 article.gmane.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469296 Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29576 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30224 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30225 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30226 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30227 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30229 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:161 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:221 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512 Patch