On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Mariusz Woloszyn wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > Buffer overflow in GNU screen allows privilege escalation for local users. > > Usually screen is installed either setgid-utmp or setuid-root. > > > With devpts and libutempter it is possible to install fully functional > screen without suid/sgid. Does that mean any program that links with libutempter gains complete suid/sgid root functionality, or only when executing the functions in the libutempter library, please?