Description
The terminal dispatcher in mosh before 1.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (long loop and CPU consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082766.html ↗
- https://github.com/keithw/mosh/commit/9791768705528e911bfca6c4d8aa88139035060e ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082814.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082850.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53646 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49260 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/22/9 ↗
- https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/271 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823943 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75779 ↗
- https://github.com/keithw/mosh/blob/master/ChangeLog ↗