Gentoo: GLSA-200611-01 High: Screen UTF-8 Handling Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200611-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Screen: UTF-8 character handling vulnerability Date: November 03, 2006 Bugs: #152770 ID: 200611-01

Synopsis ======= Screen contains an error in its UTF-8 character handling code that would allow a remote Denial of Service or possibly the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-misc/screen < 4.0.3 >= 4.0.3
========== cstone and Richard Felker discove...