CVE-2017-7483
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.37% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-05-02 14:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 16:04Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-04-05
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 60931a777deacc93a7d9bf45744d3d8ad35232cb3b07af18673306b90b2d910d
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170501 Integer Overflow in rxvthttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/15
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170501 Re: Integer Overflow in rxvthttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/18
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20210609 [SECURITY] [DLA 2683-1] rxvt security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00012.html
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- rxvt No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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