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High
CVE-2017-7483
Rxvt 2.7.10 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
Affected Vendor
The RXVT Project
View all reports →Affected Software
rxvt
Vulnerable Versions:
2.7.10
Timeline
Official Publish:
May 2nd, 2017
Last Modified:
August 5th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.