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SUSE: CVE-2017-7483: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-7483: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/02/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/12/2017
Modified
06/20/2021

Description

Rxvt 2.7.10 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by passing the value -2^31 inside a terminal escape code, which results in a non-invertible integer that eventually leads to a segfault due to an out of bounds read.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-rxvt-unicode

References

  • CVE-2017-7483

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