CVE-2008-2383

EPSS 1.7%

xterm - remote code execution

Published: 1/2/2009Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

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.

Affected packages (2)

References (1)