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vulnerabilityCVE-2025-46805
Name
CVE-2025-46805
Source
NVD ( link)Debian ( link)
Description
Screen version 5.0.0 and older version 4 releases have a TOCTOU race potentially allowing to send SIGHUP, SIGCONT to privileged processes when installed setuid-root.
Published Date
Updated Date
Workaround
-
Advisories

Analysis#


Affected Component
Analysis
screen
Patched

Vulnerability Ratings#


5.7
CVSSv4
5.5
CVSSv31
NaN
other

Others affected components#


Name
Project
Project Version
Version
Status
buildroot
2025.02.x
5.0.1
Not Affected
buildroot
master
5.0.1
Not Affected
openwrt
master
5.0.1-r1
Not Affected
openwrt
openwrt-25.12
5.0.1-r1
Not Affected
yocto
master
5.0.1
Not Affected
yocto
scarthgap
4.9.1
Patched

Resolved with patches#


screen (yocto:kirkstone)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
fix CVE-2025-46805: socket.c - don't send signals with root
Matthias Gerstner <matthias.gerstner@suse.de>
CVE-2025-46805

screen (yocto:scarthgap)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
fix CVE-2025-46805: socket.c - don't send signals with root
Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
CVE-2025-46805