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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202003-62">
+ <title>GNU Screen: Buffer overflow</title>
+ <synopsis>A buffer overflow in GNU Screen might allow remote attackers to
+ corrupt memory.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">screen</product>
+ <announced>2020-03-30</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2020-03-30</revised>
+ <bug>708460</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-misc/screen" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.8.0</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.8.0</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>GNU Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical
+ terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>A buffer overflow was found in the way GNU Screen treated the special
+ escape OSC 49.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker, by writing a specially crafted string of characters
+ to a GNU Screen window, could possibly corrupt memory or have other
+ unspecified impact.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All GNU Screen users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-misc/screen-4.8.0"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9366">CVE-2020-9366</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-03-30T05:50:23Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-03-30T14:41:12Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>