Vulnerability CVE-2023-40216
Published: 2023-08-10

Description:
OpenBSD 7.3 before errata 014 is missing an argument-count bounds check in console terminal emulation. This could cause incorrect memory access and a kernel crash after receiving crafted DCS or CSI terminal escape sequences.

 References:
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.3/common/014_wscons.patch.sig
https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/9d3f688f46eba347e96ff0ae9506ef2061622e0c
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