A vulnerability has been identified in GNU Screen, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to errors in the "utf8_handle_comb()" [encoding.c] function when handling certain UTF-8 characters, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application by writing a specially crafted string to a window.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by cstone and Rich Felker
ChangeLog
2006-10-25 : Initial release
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