CVE-2015-6806

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

9.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.643

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
screen security update(DSA-3352-1) screen_4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7+deb7u1_i386.deb	Linux
screen security update(DSA-3352-1) screen_4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7+deb7u1_amd64.deb	Linux
SUSE-SU-2019:1354-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) screen-4.0.4-23.3.3.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2019:1354-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) screen-debuginfo-4.0.4-23.3.3.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2019:1354-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) screen-debugsource-4.0.4-23.3.3.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234