CVE-2006-4573 - Coronate Tuesday

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.

Reference

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-10/msg00028.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20727 http://secunia.com/advisories/22583 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-734 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1202 http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.026-screen.html http://secunia.com/advisories/22573 http://secunia.com/advisories/22611 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-01.xml http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.480775 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-370-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/22647 http://secunia.com/advisories/22649 http://secunia.com/advisories/22707 http://secunia.com/advisories/22726 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:191 http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4189 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939