CVE-2017-7483

high

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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00012.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/18

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-05-02

Updated: 2023-02-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High