Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package screen  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-SCREEN-625189
  • published28 Sept 2015
  • disclosed28 Sept 2015

Introduced: 28 Sep 2015

CVE-2015-6806  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

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

The MScrollV function in ansi.c in GNU screen 4.3.1 and earlier does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.