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SUSE: 2025:02186-1 moderate: CVE-2025-46802 TTY hijacking

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
The Debian security notice highlights CVE-2025-46803, a significant vulnerability that permits unauthorized access to secret keys.
* bsc#1242269 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-46802

Summary

## 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`). ## 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: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-2186=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64) * screen-4.0.4-23.9.1 * screen-debuginfo-4.0.4-23.9.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update SuSE screen TTY hijacking

References

* bsc#1242269

Cross-

* CVE-2025-46802

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-46802 ( SUSE ): 5.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-46802 ( SUSE ): 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2025-46802 ( NVD ): 5.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

* CVE-2025-46802 ( NVD ): 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02186-1
Release Date: 2025-07-01T11:48:02Z
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update SuSE screen TTY hijacking

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