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Package name screen
Date October 27th, 2006
Advisory ID MDKSA-2006:191
Affected versions CS3.0, 2006.0, 2007.0, CS4.0
Synopsis Updated screen packages fix vulnerability

Problem Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the "utf8 combining characters
handling" (utf8_handle_comb function in encoding.c) in screen before
4.0.3 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash or hang) via certain UTF8 sequences.

Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 3.0

 7e82b9ca9f4cb7d36c3effff9f9a6c9b  corporate/3.0/i586/screen-4.0.2-1.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm 
 8f03ad99709f5346b995492a749e4bfc  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/screen-4.0.2-1.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 3.0/X86_64

 848ef4b41455884c8af2faaf8b3e415a  corporate/3.0/x86_64/screen-4.0.2-1.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm 
 8f03ad99709f5346b995492a749e4bfc  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/screen-4.0.2-1.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006

 9e8eaea4477898e374bb25347282cfd1  2006.0/i586/screen-4.0.2-6.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm 
 eca09b0f931ca48e48ce41608a188e01  2006.0/SRPMS/screen-4.0.2-6.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006/X86_64

 c00635f995a854a72e8c372c8464d960  2006.0/x86_64/screen-4.0.2-6.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm 
 eca09b0f931ca48e48ce41608a188e01  2006.0/SRPMS/screen-4.0.2-6.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007

 945203a197c7e5517be01ee32e5eebcc  2007.0/i586/screen-4.0.2-9.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm 
 4e8453bfc592055a3b62b1be19a564f9  2007.0/SRPMS/screen-4.0.2-9.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64

 e9ca78a213aa19bcc48546e06715e4be  2007.0/x86_64/screen-4.0.2-9.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm 
 4e8453bfc592055a3b62b1be19a564f9  2007.0/SRPMS/screen-4.0.2-9.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Corporate Server 4.0

 b8291d07e76adc2dd872fc1456f63340  corporate/4.0/i586/screen-4.0.2-6.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm 
 a63794f38d2898c38f23b0d124baf649  corporate/4.0/SRPMS/screen-4.0.2-6.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

Corporate Server 4.0/X86_64

 8597118cdb7fa7c052e8d190469d99cc  corporate/4.0/x86_64/screen-4.0.2-6.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm 
 a63794f38d2898c38f23b0d124baf649  corporate/4.0/SRPMS/screen-4.0.2-6.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4573

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