Vulnerability CVE-2017-7483

Vulnerability CVE-2017-7483

Published: 2017-05-02

Description:

Rxvt 2.7.10 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by passing the value -2^31 inside a terminal escape code, which results in a non-invertible integer that eventually leads to a segfault due to an out of bounds read.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
High	rxvt Integer Overflow	Jason	03.05.2017

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
5/10	2.9/10	10/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
None	None	Partial

Affected software
Rxvt project -> RXVT

References:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/15

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/18

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