[slackware-security] screen

New screen packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/screen-4.9.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: attacher.c - prevent temporary 0666 mode on PTYs. avoid...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : screen Vulnerability (NS-SA-2022-0035)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has screen packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - encoding.c in GNU Screen through 4.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid write access and application crash or possibly have...

MGASA-2021-0109 Updated screen packages fix security vulnerability

Felix Weinmann reported a flaw in the handling of combining characters in screen, which can result in denial of service, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code via a specially crafted UTF-8 character sequence CVE-2021-26937...