ALAS2-2023-2023

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-24626  

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. (CVE-2023-24626)

ALAS2-2023-2023


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2023
Advisory Release Date: 2023-04-27 18:36 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-05-02 19:18 Pacific
Severity: Low

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2023-24626)


Affected Packages:

screen


Issue Correction:
Run yum update screen to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    screen-4.1.0-0.27.20120314git3c2946.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    screen-debuginfo-4.1.0-0.27.20120314git3c2946.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

i686:
    screen-4.1.0-0.27.20120314git3c2946.amzn2.0.1.i686
    screen-debuginfo-4.1.0-0.27.20120314git3c2946.amzn2.0.1.i686

src:
    screen-4.1.0-0.27.20120314git3c2946.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    screen-4.1.0-0.27.20120314git3c2946.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    screen-debuginfo-4.1.0-0.27.20120314git3c2946.amzn2.0.1.x86_64