UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6806

The MScrollV function in ansi.c in GNU screen 4.3.1 and earlier does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / screen

Package

Name: screen
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/screen@4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.3-14ubuntu10

4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "screen",
            "binary_version": "4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}