Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rxvt  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-RXVT-264713
  • published2 May 2017
  • disclosed2 May 2017

Introduced: 2 May 2017

CVE-2017-7483  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rxvt package and not the rxvt package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Rxvt 2.7.10 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by passing the value -2^31 inside a terminal escape code, which results in a non-invertible integer that eventually leads to a segfault due to an out of bounds read.