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Mageia: 2021-0109 Moderate: Screen Denial Of Service and Code Execution

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). . MGASA-2021-0109 - Updated screen packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 04 Mar 2021 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0109.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 7, 8 CVE: CVE-2021-26937 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://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2021/msg00042.html - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-26937 SRPMS: - 8/core/screen-4.8.0-2.1.mga8 - 7/core/screen-4.6.2-2.2.mga7 . Patch release addresses CVE-2021-26937 to mitigate risks of service interruption and malicious code execution.. Mageia Security Update, Screen Issues, Denial of Service, Code Execution Fix. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Mar 04, 2021 Mageia