29/5/2019

USN-3996-1: GNU Screen vulnerability

First published: Wed May 29 2019(Updated: )

Kuang-che Wu discovered that GNU Screen improperly handled certain input. An attacker could use this issue to cause GNU Screen to crash, resulting in a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
All of
ubuntu/screen	<4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1	4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1
	=14.04
All of
ubuntu/screen	<4.0.3-14ubuntu8.1	4.0.3-14ubuntu8.1
	=12.04

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(Contains the following vulnerabilities)

CVE-2015-6806

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