USN-962-1: VTE vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04

Packages

• vte - Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0

Details

Janne Snabb discovered that applications using VTE, such as gnome-terminal,
did not correctly filter window and icon title request escape codes. If a
user were tricked into viewing specially crafted output in their terminal,
a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands with user privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10

• libvte9 - 1:0.22.2-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 9.04

• libvte9 - 1:0.20.0-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• libvte9 - 1:0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2010-2713