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 an out of bounds read.

• CWE-125

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/15Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/18Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/15Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/18Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory

Published

May 2, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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