Executive Summary

Summary
Title GNU Screen vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3996-1 First vendor Publication 2019-05-29
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-05-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM - Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

Summary:

GNU Screen could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file or received specially crafted input.

Software Description: - screen: terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

Details:

Kuang-che Wu discovered that GNU Screen improperly handled certain input. An attacker could use this issue to cause GNU Screen to crash, resulting in a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
screen 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
screen 4.0.3-14ubuntu8.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3996-1
CVE-2015-6806

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3996-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-09-09 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_98092444564511e59ad814dae9d210b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-08 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-305.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-08 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3352.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2019-05-29 17:18:48
  • First insertion