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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
                      ESB-1999.160 -- RHSA-1999:042-01
                  screen defaults to not using Unix98 ptys
                               22 October 1999

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Red Hat, Inc. has released the following advisory concerning a 
vulnerability in the default permissions on ptys used by 'screen' shipped 
with Red Hat Linux 6.1.   'screen' leaves the ptys it uses with world 
read/write permissions.  This may allow users to gain privileged access.

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		   Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory

Synopsis:		screen defaults to not using Unix98 ptys
Advisory ID:		RHSA-1999:042-01
Issue date:		1999-10-20
Updated on:		
Keywords:		
Cross references:	screen unix98 pty permissions
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1. Topic:

Screen uses ptys with world read/write permissions.

2. Problem description:

The version of screen that shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.1
defaulted to not using Unix98 ptys. Since screen is not setuid
root, this means that it leaves the ptys with insecure permissions.
The updated packages restore the Unix98 pty support. Thanks go to
Chris Evans for noting this vulnerability.

Previous versions of Red Hat Linux are not affected by this problem.

3. Bug IDs fixed (http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info):

6100

4. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Linux 6.1, Intel

5. Obsoleted by:

6. Conflicts with:

7. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.1:

Intel:
  ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.1/i386/screen-3.9.4-3.i386.rpm

Source package:
  ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.1/SRPMS/screen-3.9.4-3.src.rpm

8. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:
 
rpm -Uvh 'filename'
 
where filename is the name of the RPM.

9. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name
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2e5ada61d3d06408bae76bf581d2bf69  screen-3.9.4-3.i386.rpm
09277e5b10b709ac2d974b952cb29e9b  screen-3.9.4-3.src.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security.  Our key
is available at:
 
http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html
 
You can verify each package with the following command:
 
rpm --checksig  'filename'
 
If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or
tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:
 
rpm --checksig --nogpg 'filename'

10. References:

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