CVE-2023-40216

Summary

CVECVE-2023-40216
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-10 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-23 15:21:00 UTC
DescriptionOpenBSD 7.3 before errata 014 is missing an argument-count bounds check in console terminal emulation. This could cause incorrect memory access and a kernel crash after receiving crafted DCS or CSI terminal escape sequences.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-862

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 - All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_001 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_002 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_003 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_004 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_005 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_006 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_007 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_008 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_009 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_010 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_011 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_012 All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 7.3 errata_013 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Make sure we do not increase the escape sequence argument count beyon… · openbsd/src@9d3f688 · GitHub MISC github.com
ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.3/common/014_wscons.patch.sig MISC ftp.openbsd.org
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