CVE-2006-4573

GNU Screen < 4.0.2 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the "utf8 combining characters handling" (utf8_handle_comb function in encoding.c) in screen before 4.0.3 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via certain UTF8 sequences.

References (21)

[Mailing List] http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html

[Patch] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-10/msg00028.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22573

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22583

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22611

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-370-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:191

[Vendor Advisory] http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530

[Vendor Advisory] http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.480775

[Issue Tracking] https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-734

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.026-screen.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20727

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1202

[Third Party Advisory] http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-01.xml

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22647

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22649

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22707

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22726

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/25402

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4189

... and 1 more

Scores

EPSS 0.0117

EPSS Percentile 78.4%

Classification

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gnu/screen < 4.0.2

Timeline

Published Oct 24, 2006

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026