CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-9366
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-02-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
A buffer overflow was found in the way GNU Screen before 4.8.0 treated the special escape OSC 49. Specially crafted output, or a special program, could corrupt memory and crash Screen or possibly have unspecified other impact.
Affected configurations
• gnu screen (< 4.8.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/25/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2020-02/msg00007.html Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-62 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/06/3 Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/25/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2020-02/msg00007.html Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-62 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/06/3 Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes