OpenPKG Security Advisory 2006.26

OpenPKG Security Advisory - OpenPKG-SA-2006.026: According to a vendor release announcement [0], a denial of service vulnerability exists in the virtual terminal application GNU screen [1], version 4.0.2 and earlier. The vulnerabilities exist in the handling of "UTF-8 combining characters" and allow user-assisted attackers to cause a Denial of Service (crash or hang of GNU screen) via certain UTF-8 character sequences.