CVE-2015-6806
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 28, 2015
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 3, 2015
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20150904 Re: CVE request: screen stack overflow (deep recursion)mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20150901 CVE request: screen stack overflow (deep recursion)mailing-list
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=b7484c224738247b510ed0d268cd577076958f1b
- [oss-security] 20150903 AW: Re: CVE request: screen stack overflow (deep recursion)mailing-list
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45713
- DSA-3352vendor-advisory
- USN-3996-1vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1485vendor-advisory
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