gnome-screensaver vulnerabilities

2008-11-1100:00:00

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CVSS2

4.7

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

AI Score

6.4

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.005

Percentile

75.9%

JSON

Releases

Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

gnome-screensaver -

Details

It was discovered that the notify feature in gnome-screensaver could let
a local attacker read the clipboard contents of a locked session by
using Ctrl-V. (CVE-2007-6389)

Alan Matsuoka discovered that gnome-screensaver did not properly handle
network outages when using a remote authentication service. During a
network interruption, or by disconnecting the network cable, a local
attacker could gain access to locked sessions. (CVE-2008-0887)

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu7.10noarchgnome-screensaver< 2.20.0-0ubuntu4.3UNKNOWN
Ubuntu6.06noarchgnome-screensaver< 2.14.3-0ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN