MDKSA-1999:013

Package name

screen

Date

1999-10-21

Advisory ID

MDKSA-1999:013

Affected versions

6.1 i586

Problem description

By default, screen did not use Unix98 ptys (/dev/pts/*), which resulted in its controlling terminal being world-writable. This is a security bug, which this package cures. Credits go to Red Hat. Moreover, /etc/profile.d/screen.sh has been rewritten so that it's now totally sh-compatible, ie it will also work with other sh-compatible shells (zsh, ash to name two of them).

Updated packages

6.1 i586

 49922e0afd94dbe488f18455829b1da7  6.1/RPMS/screen-3.9.4-3mdk.i586.rpm
3893af09f61aad3b3bbeb50e91f7fd7a  6.1/SRPMS/screen-3.9.4-3mdk.src.rpm