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CVE-2015-6806
CVE-2015-6806
PUBLISHED
The MScrollV function in ansi.c in GNU screen 4.3.1 and earlier does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.
EPSS 1.27% · 79.9th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
1.27%
79.9th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS | screen | 0, 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9, 4.0.3-14ubuntu10 |
Exploit Intelligence
- [oss-security] 20150901 CVE request: screen stack overflow (deep recursion) (circl)
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=b7484c224738247b510ed0d268cd577076958f1b (circl)
- [oss-security] 20150903 AW: Re: CVE request: screen stack overflow (deep recursion) (circl)
- DSA-3352 (circl)
- USN-3996-1 (circl)
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1485 (circl)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/03/11 (vulncheck-nvd)
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45713 (vulncheck-nvd)
Timeline
- Sep 28, 2015 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 10, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
- Sep 7, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-6806 third-party-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/01/1 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3996-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-6806 third-party-advisory