CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-6806
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-09-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The MScrollV function in ansi.c in GNU screen 4.3.1 and earlier does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.
Affected configurations
• gnu gnu screen (<= 4.3.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=b7484c224738247b510ed0d268cd577076958f1b git.savannah.gnu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3352 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/01/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/03/11 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/03/4 www.openwall.com
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45713 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3996-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=b7484c224738247b510ed0d268cd577076958f1b git.savannah.gnu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3352 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/01/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/03/11 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/03/4 www.openwall.com
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45713 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3996-1/ usn.ubuntu.com