Advisories » MGASA-2021-0109

Updated screen packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 04 Mar 2021
Modification date: 04 Mar 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-26937

Description

Felix Weinmann reported a flaw in the handling of combining characters in
screen, which can result in denial of service, or potentially the execution of
arbitrary code via a specially crafted UTF-8 character sequence
(CVE-2021-26937).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28390
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4861
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-26937

SRPMS

8/core

• screen-4.8.0-2.1.mga8

7/core

• screen-4.6.2-2.2.mga7