suse · CVE-2017-5618

Quick triage

Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 13:52:53 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 15:43:03 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-5618 severity important: SUSE including 240 source package names (amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20220127-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 300 product×package rows across 57 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, … (57 product lines)): Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 55, Fixed 14.

Description:

GNU screen before 4.5.1 allows local users to modify arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges by leveraging improper checking of logfile permissions.

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