CVE-2023-40359

2023-08-1400:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

xterm

380

regis

reporting

pointer

overflow

issue

character-set

compile time

experimental feature

9.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

39.3%

JSON

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.