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Alpine: multiple screen packages: security update to 4.9.0-r2 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400068

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=14fdd2e99aad830a227ddbbc95ea0421cbd5964e

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=280568d50b19fc1962c662fde35c0232dadecd5a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400068

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 5/10/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

Percentile: 96.59

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24626

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24626