vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-24626: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 8, 2023
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-screen
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