[Full-disclosure] screen 4.0.3 local Authentication Bypass - Working on multiple systems

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Sûnnet Beskerming <info at beskerming.com> [2007-06-06 15:19]:
[...] 
> ~user(screen) $ echo Once the process is killed, I should not reappear.
> Once the process is killed, I should not reappear.
> ~user(screen) $ ^a+x
> Key: [1234]
> Again: [1234]
> Screen used by User <user>.
> Password:
> 
> At this stage we now need to kill the right process.  On OS X, screen  
> ignores the SIGINT sent by ^c, so we need to send it a SIGKILL.   
> Using your favourite process killer, kill the outer screen pid  
> (5171).  If you vary the process, such as:
[...]
What is the point of locking screen with a password if you 
have an open shell on the host??? In this case you can just 
close the window an reattach the screen session.
Kind regards
Nico
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