{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7483","details":"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.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:46:15Z","published":"2017-05-02T14:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-7483"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7483"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/15"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/01/18"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7483"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"rxvt","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/rxvt@1:2.7.10-6?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1:2.7.10-6"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"rxvt","binary_version":"1:2.7.10-6"},{"binary_name":"rxvt-ml","binary_version":"1:2.7.10-6"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7483.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}