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.
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2683-1 rxvt security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16503 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:04:11.602Z

Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7483

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-05-02T14:59:00.660

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-7483

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