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screen @ Savannah: GNU Screen v.5.0.1 is released

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

5.0.1 is a security fix release. It includes only few code fixes, types and security issues. It doesn't include any new features.

  • CVE-2025-46805: do NOT send signals with root privileges
  • CVE-2025-46804: avoid file existence test information leaks
  • CVE-2025-46803: apply safe PTY default mode of 0620
  • CVE-2025-46802: prevent temporary 0666 mode on PTYs in attacher
  • CVE-2025-23395: reintroduce lf_secreopen() for logfile
  • buffer overflow due bad strncpy()
  • uninitialized variables warnings
  • typos
  • combining char handling that could lead to a segfault


Release (official tarball) will be available soon for download:

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/

Please report any bugs or regressions.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

Cheers,

Alex

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Source: Planet GNU

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