The xterm terminal emulator in XFree86 4.2.0 and earlier 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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-06-15T10:05:53.568606

Reserved: 2003-02-04T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2003-0063

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-03-03T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2024-06-15T10:15:10.083


Link: CVE-2003-0063

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