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openSUSE Leap 15.6: 2025:02016-1 moderate: screen TTY hijacking

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Calendar Grey June 19, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important security update for display in openSUSE addresses TTY takeover risk. Upgrade promptly to safeguard your system against vulnerabilities.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for screen fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2025-46802: temporary `chmod` of a user's TTY to mode 0666 when

attempting to attach to a multi-user session allows for TTY hijacking

(bsc#1242269).

Other issues fixed:

* Use TTY file descriptor passing after a suspend (`MSG_CONT`).

* Fix resume after suspend in multi-user mode.

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security advisory moderate security issue screen openSUSE TTY hijacking

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2016=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2016=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2016=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2016=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2016=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-2016=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-2016=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-2016=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* screen-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debuginfo-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debugsource-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* screen-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debuginfo-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debugsource-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* screen-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debuginfo-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debugsource-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* screen-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debuginfo-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debugsource-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* screen-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debuginfo-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debugsource-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* screen-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debuginfo-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* screen-debugsource-4.6.2-150000.5.8.1

* Basesystem...

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References

* bsc#1242269

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46802.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242269

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02016-1
Release Date: 2025-06-19T07:14:49Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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