Opened 18 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#2197 closed defect (fixed)

Screen security vulnerability

Reported by: dnicholson@… Owned by: dnicholson@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 6.2.0
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords: screen security
Cc:

Description

Vulnerability identified in screen handling of UTF-8 characters. Fixed in new version, 4.0.3.

http://secunia.com/advisories/22583/
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-10/msg00028.html

The diff is tiny. I could probably paste it here, but you can download it. New release is not on the GNU ftp server yet.

http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/screen/screen-4.0.2-4.0.3.diff.gz
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/screen/screen-4.0.3.tar.gz

Change History (3)

comment:1 by dnicholson@…, 18 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to dnicholson@…
Status: newassigned

comment:2 by dnicholson@…, 18 years ago

Just noticed that the screen description says that the UTF-8 support is not supported by LFS. Is this still true? It doesn't seem so. It certainly seems like I'm entering UTF-8 in my screen session and things are working OK.

comment:3 by dnicholson@…, 18 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Fixed in r6359.

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