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FreeBSD : screen -- stack overflow (98092444-5645-11e5-9ad8-14dae9d210b8)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85860

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Kuang-che Wu reports :

screen will recursively call MScrollV to depth n/256. This is time consuming and will overflow stack if n is huge.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45713

http://www.nessus.org/u?326b2f5e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85860

File Name: freebsd_pkg_98092444564511e59ad814dae9d210b8.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Published: 9/9/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:screen, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6806