UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7483

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7483
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7483.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7483
Upstream
Published
2017-05-02T14:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:46:15Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

Rxvt 2.7.10 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by passing the value -2^31 inside a terminal escape code, which results in a non-invertible integer that eventually leads to a segfault due to an out of bounds read.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / rxvt

Package

Name
rxvt
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/rxvt@1:2.7.10-6?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:2.*
1:2.7.10-6

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "rxvt",
            "binary_version": "1:2.7.10-6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "rxvt-ml",
            "binary_version": "1:2.7.10-6"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7483.json"