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openSUSE: 2019:1485-1 Moderate: Stack Overflow in Screen

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Calendar Grey June 2, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A recent security patch for the user interface tackles a notable risk of buffer overflow in openSUSE Leap 42.3.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for screen fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2015-6806: Fixed a stack overflow due to deep recursion (bsc#944458).

Non-security issue fixed:

- Fixed segmentation faults related to altscreen and resizing screen

(bsc#1130831).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1485=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

screen-4.0.4-10.3.1

screen-debuginfo-4.0.4-10.3.1

screen-debugsource-4.0.4-10.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6806.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1130831

https://bugzilla.suse.com/944458

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1485-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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