PT-2005-1794 · Rxvt Unicode · Rxvt-Unicode

Rob Holland · Published 2005-03-22 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-0764

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions rxvt-unicode versions prior to 5.3

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the command.C file, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This can be achieved by using a crafted file that contains long escape sequences.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.3, update to version 5.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0764

Affected Products

Rxvt-Unicode

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0764 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0764 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-0764 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84680 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-0764 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-23.xml · Patch, Vendor Advisory