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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2006-4573 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-4573
NVD Published Date:
10/24/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.