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CVE-2006-4573

Impact:: Low
Public Date:: 2006-10-23

Bugzilla:: 212056: CVE-2006-4573 screen buffer overflow

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the "utf8 combining characters handling" (utf8_handle_comb function in encoding.c) in screen before 4.0.3 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via certain UTF8 sequences.

Find out more about CVE-2006-4573 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Red Hat no longer plans to fix this issue in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Affected Packages State

Platform	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	screen	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	screen	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	screen	Will not fix

Last Modified 2018-05-01T13:56:49+00:00

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