Denial of Service and Application Crash Vulnerability in GNU Screen through 4.8.0

Denial of Service and Application Crash Vulnerability in GNU Screen through 4.8.0

CVE-2021-26937 · CRITICAL Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

encoding.c in GNU Screen through 4.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UTF-8 character sequence.

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