CVE-2020-9366

critical

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.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/06/3

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-62

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2020-02/msg00007.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/25/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-02-24

Updated: 2022-01-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

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