CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7483
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
Rxvt 2.7.10 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by passing the value -2^31 inside a terminal escape code, which results in a non-invertible integer that eventually leads to a segfault due to an out of bounds read.
Affected configurations
• rxvt project rxvt
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/15 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/18 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/15 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/18 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory