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GHSA-3CXX-6JHW-PQVG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 00:59 – Updated: 2025-04-12 12:52

Details

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.

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CVE-2015-6806 (GCVE-0-2015-6806)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-28 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:29

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2267 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

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https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45713	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3352	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3996-1/	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
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Date Public

2015-08-07 00:00

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