CVE-2006-4573

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the "utf8 combining characters handling" (utf8_handle_comb function in encoding.c) in screen before 4.0.3 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via certain UTF8 sequences.

References

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-734

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4189

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-370-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20727

http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.026-screen.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:191

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1202

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.480775

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-01.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/25402

http://secunia.com/advisories/22726

http://secunia.com/advisories/22707

http://secunia.com/advisories/22649

http://secunia.com/advisories/22647

http://secunia.com/advisories/22611

http://secunia.com/advisories/22583

http://secunia.com/advisories/22573

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-10/msg00028.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3