CVE-2021-26937

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

encoding.c in GNU Screen through 4.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UTF-8 character sequence.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-26937

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-26937.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.8.0-3
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.8.0-5
debian debianbullseyefixed4.8.0-5
debian debianforkyfixed4.8.0-5
debian debiansidfixed4.8.0-5
debian debiantrixiefixed4.8.0-5

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.