SB2021030908 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 update for screen
Published: March 9, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021030908
CSH Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-26937)
CWE-ID: CWE-88 - Argument Injection or Modification
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data in the encoding.c file. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted UTF-8 character sequence to the GNU Screen application and perform a denial of service attack or execute arbitrary code on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.