Vulnerability CVE-2023-24626


Published: 2023-04-08

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.

 References:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/patch/?id=e9ad41bfedb4537a6f0de20f00b27c7739f168f7
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51252
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63195

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