Bug 2364200 (CVE-2025-46803) - CVE-2025-46803 screen: Screen by Default Creates World Writable PTYs
Summary: CVE-2025-46803 screen: Screen by Default Creates World Writable PTYs
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-46803
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-05 20:11 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-13 18:49 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-05 20:11:45 UTC 
In Screen version 5.0.0 the default mode of pseudo terminals (PTYs) allocated
by Screen was changed from 0620 to 0622, thereby allowing public writes
to any of its PTYs in the system.
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