Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in Xterm. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2009-0002

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2008.0
Mandriva Linux 2008.1
Mandriva Linux 2009.0
Mandriva Corporate 3.0
Mandriva Corporate 4.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
0afcdb50028ef42a65de6d144aa132e0 2008.0/i586/xterm-229-2.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
4ab46d69ae67182b660d9d876b2d7d4a 2008.0/SRPMS/xterm-229-2.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
0edc195a66de717de16ce187bdb52605 2008.0/x86_64/xterm-229-2.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
4ab46d69ae67182b660d9d876b2d7d4a 2008.0/SRPMS/xterm-229-2.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1:
42985a0486e1bea3196576216dc29fff 2008.1/i586/xterm-232-1.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
7ae405602b65a1fc1e53ce7b9619ea4c 2008.1/SRPMS/xterm-232-1.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64:
8b3dc6fb6c25034b47094c2895244f52 2008.1/x86_64/xterm-232-1.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
7ae405602b65a1fc1e53ce7b9619ea4c 2008.1/SRPMS/xterm-232-1.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2009.0:
eb3c38a51326b1eafb5d0ad6f4e73ddb 2009.0/i586/xterm-236-1.1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
0852446a157588e61c85ce589d140b7f 2009.0/SRPMS/xterm-236-1.1mdv2009.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2009.0/X86_64:
33aa6e252961cfa84aa243f4654bd0b7 2009.0/x86_64/xterm-236-1.1mdv2009.0.x86_64.rpm
0852446a157588e61c85ce589d140b7f 2009.0/SRPMS/xterm-236-1.1mdv2009.0.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0:
60f0250c17212cf80c5e81e0ba4f5b82 corporate/3.0/i586/xterm-184-1.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
8674b5ce234d367814905944cbbb48a6 corporate/3.0/SRPMS/xterm-184-1.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
05b5a40265d8a5a9f6da03af5920252a corporate/3.0/x86_64/xterm-184-1.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
8674b5ce234d367814905944cbbb48a6 corporate/3.0/SRPMS/xterm-184-1.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 4.0:
3f8bb08944785f50ab189fdc9af829e1 corporate/4.0/i586/xterm-203-1.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
dff8e15cc4fd01732ca2097b2bc4731d corporate/4.0/SRPMS/xterm-203-1.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

Corporate 4.0/X86_64:
7da181fbf15239e44b4f887e1bbbcc03 corporate/4.0/x86_64/xterm-203-1.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
dff8e15cc4fd01732ca2097b2bc4731d corporate/4.0/SRPMS/xterm-203-1.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0080
http://lists.mandriva.com/security-announce/2009-01/msg00014.php

ChangeLog

2009-01-12 : Initial release

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