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>> GNU Screen Unspecified UTF-8 Character Handling Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Title : GNU Screen Unspecified UTF-8 Character Handling Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4189
CVE ID : CVE-2006-4573
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-10-25

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A vulnerability has been identified in GNU Screen, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service [...]

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4189
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-10/msg00028.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by cstone and Rich Felker

ChangeLog

2006-10-25 : Initial release

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