vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6198-1 (CVE-2023-24626): GNU Screen vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 8, 2023
Added
Jul 4, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

socket.c in GNU Screen through 4.9.0, when installed setuid or setgid (the default on platforms such as Arch Linux and FreeBSD), allows local users to send a privileged SIGHUP signal to any PID, causing a denial of service or disruption of the target process.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-screen
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