USN-3996-1

Kuang-che Wu discovered that GNU Screen improperly handled certain input. An attacker could use this issue to cause GNU Screen to crash, resulting in a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / screen

Package

Name: screen
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/screen@4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.3-14ubuntu10

4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability":  "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "screen",
            "binary_version":  "4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves":  [
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2015-6806",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "low",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem":  "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3996-1.json"