VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-7483

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability2.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-05-02
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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 an out of bounds read.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references