CVE-2023-40359 (GCVE-0-2023-40359)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-14 00:00
Modified
2024-10-09 14:50
Severity ?
Summary
xterm before 380 supports ReGIS reporting for character-set names even if they have unexpected characters (i.e., neither alphanumeric nor underscore), aka a pointer/overflow issue. This can only occur for xterm installations that are configured at compile time to use a certain experimental feature.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_380Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_380Release Notes
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