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CVE-2006-4573

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2006-10-29 screen -- combined UTF-8 characters vulnerability

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2006-4573
Phase Assigned(20060906)

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

Source Reference
MLIST [screen-users] 20061023 Secfix release for screen: screen-4.0.3
CONFIRM https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-734
CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
APPLE APPLE-SA-2007-05-24
DEBIAN DSA-1202
GENTOO GLSA-200611-01
MANDRIVA MDKSA-2006:191
OPENPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.026
SLACKWARE SSA:2006-307-02
UBUNTU USN-370-1
BID 20727
VUPEN ADV-2006-4189
VUPEN ADV-2007-1939
SECUNIA 22583
SECUNIA 22573
SECUNIA 22611
SECUNIA 22647
SECUNIA 22649
SECUNIA 22707
SECUNIA 22726
SECUNIA 25402