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screen -- stack overflow

Affected packages
screen < 4.3.1_2

Details

VuXML ID 98092444-5645-11e5-9ad8-14dae9d210b8
Discovery 2015-08-07
Entry 2015-09-08

Kuang-che Wu reports:

screen will recursively call MScrollV to depth n/256. This is time consuming and will overflow stack if n is huge.

References

CVE Name CVE-2015-6806
URL https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45713