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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3352-1 screen -- security update

Date Reported:

04 Sep 2015

Affected Packages:

screen

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 797624.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-6806.

More information:

A vulnerability was found in screen causing a stack overflow which results in crashing the screen server process, resulting in denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.1-3+deb8u1.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.1-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your screen packages.