gnome-terminal allows arbitrary command execution when viewing files containing crafted escape sequences

Overview

gnome-terminal may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via crafted escape sequences.

Description

gnome-terminal affords users the ability to utilize an escape sequence to “export” the title of the current window title directly to the shell command line. By viewing a maliciously crafted file in gnome-terminal, a victim may unknowingly execute shell commands (provided by the attacker).

This vulnerability was discovered by H D Moore of Digital Defense. H D has provided a paper on this topic (TERMINAL EMULATOR SECURITY ISSUES), and Red Hat has published RHSA-2003:053-10. Both of these documents provide more information about this vulnerability.

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Impact

A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable host.

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Solution

Apply a patch.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: February 27, 2003

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

See <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-053.html&gt;.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.

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References

• <http://www.digitaldefense.net/labs/papers/Termulation.txt&gt;
• <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-053.html&gt;

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was discovered by H D Moore of Digital Defense. The CERT/CC thanks both H D Moore and Red Hat for providing information upon which this document is based.

This document was written by Ian A Finlay.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2003-0070
Severity Metric:	4.86 Date Public: