CVE-2017-7483: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Rxvt 2.7.10 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by passing the value -2^31 inside a terminal escape code, which results in a non-invertible integer that eventually leads to a segfault due to an out of bounds read.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Rxvt Project Rxvt: affected versions not specified

Published 2017-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.