Re: request CVE id: insecure handling of DISPLAY in rxvt

["Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Nico Golde wrote:

> "If the DISPLAY environment is not set, rxvt opens an xterm
> on :0, which on some headless login-server means anyone can setup
> an fake X server waiting for someone loggin in without X
> forwarding to start rxvt by some mistake or by some program (thus
> without even noticing) and getting full shell access to that other
> account."
>
> This is Debian bug 469296[0].

Use CVE-2008-1142

I'm not going to pretend to understand this issue, plus Lubomir's bug
comment raises the question of dependency on user error (though it's
probably a relatively common error, I'd think).  So, I'll fill in the CVE
later once this has been fleshed out.

- Steve