{"id":31334,"date":"2019-05-29T22:55:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-3996-1-gnu-screen-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T14:34:10","slug":"usn-3996-1-gnu-screen-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-3996-1-gnu-screen-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"USN-3996-1: GNU Screen vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USN-3996-1: GNU Screen vulnerability<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"gnu-screen-vulnerability\">GNU Screen vulnerability<\/h2>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu 14.04 ESM<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu 12.04 ESM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h3>\n<p>GNU Screen could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it<br \/>\nopened a specially crafted file or received specially crafted input.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"software-description\">Software Description<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>screen &#8211; terminal multiplexer with VT100\/ANSI terminal emulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"details\">Details<\/h3>\n<p>Kuang-che Wu discovered that GNU Screen improperly handled certain input. An<br \/>\nattacker could use this issue to cause GNU Screen to crash, resulting in a<br \/>\ndenial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"update-instructions\">Update instructions<\/h2>\n<p>The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Ubuntu 14.04 ESM<\/dt>\n<dd>screen &#8211; 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1<\/dd>\n<dt>Ubuntu 12.04 ESM<\/dt>\n<dd>screen &#8211; 4.0.3-14ubuntu8.1<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>To update your system, please follow these instructions: <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades\">https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"references\">References<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.canonical.com\/~ubuntu-security\/cve\/CVE-2015-6806\">CVE-2015-6806<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/usn.ubuntu.com\/3996-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USN-3996-1: GNU Screen vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>USN-3996-1: GNU Screen vulnerability GNU Screen vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary GNU Screen could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file or received specially crafted input. Software Description screen &#8211; terminal multiplexer with VT100\/ANSI terminal emulation Details 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. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM screen &#8211; 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9ubuntu0.1~esm1 Ubuntu 12.04 ESM screen &#8211; 4.0.3-14ubuntu8.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-3996-1-gnu-screen-vulnerability\/\" title=\"USN-3996-1: GNU Screen vulnerability\">[ more&#8230; ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-31334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31335,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334\/revisions\/31335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}