CVE-2014-1949 - Improper Access Control

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

GTK+ 3.10.9 and earlier, as used in cinnamon-screensaver, gnome-screensaver, and other applications, allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by pressing the menu button.

GTK+ 3.10.9 and earlier, as used in cinnamon-screensaver, gnome-screensaver, and other applications, allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by pressing the menu button.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2015-01-16 16:59:00

Last updated 9 years ago

2015-10-13 16:38:00

Affected Software

Linux Mint 17.0

17.0

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0374.html

[oss-security] 20140212 cinnamon-screensaver lock bypass (tested on Fedora 20)

[oss-security] 20140212 Re: cinnamon-screensaver lock bypass (tested on Fedora 20)

MDVSA-2015:162

USN-2475-1

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759145

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064695

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/44

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