CVE-2006-4573
N/A
Published: October 24, 2006 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:29 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorScreen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-10/msg00028.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-01.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.480775
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1202
References (21)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-10/msg00028.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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