cstone and Rich Felker discovered a programming error in the UTF8 string handling code of “screen” leading to a denial of service. If a crafted string was displayed within a screen session, screen would crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
1 November 2006
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
cstone and Rich Felker discovered a programming error in the UTF8 string handling code of “screen” leading to a denial of service. If a crafted string was displayed within a screen session, screen would crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any running screen sessions to effect the necessary changes.
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