Mintty before 3.4.5 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (Windows GUI hang) by telling the Mintty window to change its title repeatedly at high speed, which results in many SetWindowTextA or SetWindowTextW calls. In other words, it does not implement a usleep or similar delay upon processing a title change.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-06-03T11:11:18

Updated: 2024-08-03T21:55:11.649Z

Reserved: 2021-03-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-28848

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-06-03T12:15:07.757

Modified: 2021-06-14T17:01:08.187

Link: CVE-2021-28848

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