Vigil@nce - xterm: denial of service via UTF-8 Character Sequence
April 2021 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, RHEL, Slackware, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 15/02/2021.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a fatal error via UTF-8 Character Sequence
of xterm, in order to trigger a denial of service.
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