Denial of Service Vulnerability in GNU Screen 4.3.1 and Earlier

CVE-2015-6806 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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