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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-9366: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-9366: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/24/2020
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

A buffer overflow was found in the way GNU Screen before 4.8.0 treated the special escape OSC 49. Specially crafted output, or a special program, could corrupt memory and crash Screen or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-screen

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