fkie_cve-2023-24626
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2023-04-08 05:15
Modified
2025-05-09 20:15
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/patch/?id=e9ad41bfedb4537a6f0de20f00b27c7739f168f7Mailing List, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63195Permissions Required
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51252Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/patch/?id=e9ad41bfedb4537a6f0de20f00b27c7739f168f7Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63195Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250509-0003/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51252Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51252Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu screen *


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  "lastModified": "2025-05-09T20:15:37.510",
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