GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-248

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published August 7, 2017

It was found that gdm could crash due to a signal handler dispatched to an invalid conversation. An attacker could crash gdm by holding the escape key when the screen is locked, possibly bypassing the locked screen (CVE-2015-7496).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	gdm	0 (affected), 3.14.2-5.1.mga5 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2015-7496

References

Updated gdm packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated gdm packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated gdm packages fix security vulnerability

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