debian · CVE-2006-4573

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Priority: medium Published: Updated: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:50:59 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2006-4573 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (screen), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the "utf8 combining characters handling" (utf8_handle_comb function in encoding.c) in screen before 4.0.3 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via certain UTF8 sequences.

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