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CVE-2008-1692

CVE-2008-1692

EPSS 0.3%
Eterm 0.9.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if -display is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.
Affected products
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References
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473127http://secunia.com/advisories/29577http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:222http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512