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
Link Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/15 Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/18 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00012.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-05-02T14:00:00

Updated: 2021-06-09T14:06:17

Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-7483

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-05-02T14:59:00.660

Modified: 2023-02-01T17:40:22.627


Link: CVE-2017-7483

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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