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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…
High7.5EPSS 2.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Integer overflow
- CWE-125 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-125 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected 2.7.10
References (3)
- [oss-security] 20170501 Integer Overflow in rxvt (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170501 Re: Integer Overflow in rxvt (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20210609 [SECURITY] [DLA 2683-1] rxvt security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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