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CVE-2008-2383

Date: January 1, 2009

CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via LF (aka \n) characters surrounding a command name within a Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) escape sequence in a text file, a related issue to CVE-2003-0063 and CVE-2003-0071.

Severity Score

8.1

Related Resources (34)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33388

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33820

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33568

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/703-1/

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0018.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOOVZTIABA4MIFUGTAVYWO6QXSUXSST4/

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9317

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35074

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R3E2Q6NPKT7V4VKZMSFF4ARLRVYOG4AU/

Url: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021522

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1694

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2383

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33397

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-2383

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33418

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33060

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33318

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-254208-1

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47655

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOOVZTIABA4MIFUGTAVYWO6QXSUXSST4/

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0019.html

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R3E2Q6NPKT7V4VKZMSFF4ARLRVYOG4AU/

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2383

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00072.html

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00184.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33419

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510030

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-2383

Severity Score

8.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CWE-94

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.1
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2008-2383

Date: January 1, 2009

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