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  • Author: voroskoi
  • Vulnerable: 4.0.2-2
  • Unaffected: 4.0.3-1siwenna1

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in GNU Screen, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within the handling of certain UTF-8 characters. This can be exploited to crash GNU Screen or potentially execute arbitrary code by printing a specially crafted string to the window.

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