>> 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
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in GNU Screen, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to errors in the "utf8_handle_comb()" [encoding.c] function when handling certain UTF-8 characters, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application by writing a specially crafted string to a window.
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