SUSE CVE-2012-4427

The gnome-shell plugin 3.4.1 in GNOME allows remote attackers to force the download and installation of arbitrary extensions from extensions.gnome.org via a crafted web page...

SUSE CVE-2013-2190

The translatehierarchyevent function in x11/clutter-device-manager-xi2.c in Clutter, when resuming the system, does not properly handle XIQueryDevice errors when a device has "disappeared," which causes the gnome-shell to crash and allows physically proximate attackers to access the previous...

SUSE CVE-2013-7220

js/ui/screenShield.js in GNOME Shell aka gnome-shell before 3.8 allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging an unattended workstation with the keyboard focus on the Activities search...

SUSE CVE-2013-7221

The automatic screen lock functionality in GNOME Shell aka gnome-shell before 3.10 does not prevent access to the "Enter a Command" dialog, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging an unattended workstation...

SUSE CVE-2014-7300

GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests and leveraging...

SUSE CVE-2017-8288

gnome-shell 3.22 through 3.24.1 mishandles extensions that fail to reload, which can lead to leaving extensions enabled in the lock screen. With these extensions, a bystander could launch applications but not interact with them, see information from the extensions e.g., what applications you have...

SUSE CVE-2019-3820

It was discovered that the gnome-shell lock screen since version 3.15.91 did not properly restrict all contextual actions. An attacker with physical access to a locked workstation could invoke certain keyboard shortcuts, and potentially other actions...

SUSE CVE-2020-17489

An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visibl...

SUSE CVE-2020-36241

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar through 0.2.4, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink to a directory outside of the intended extraction location...

SUSE CVE-2020-36314

fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.38.0, as used by GNOME Shell and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink in certain complex situations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix...

SUSE CVE-2021-3982

Linux distributions using CAPSYSNICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue. An attacker, with low privilege permissions, may take advantage of the way CAPSYSNICE is currently implemented and eventually load code to increase its process scheduler priority leading to possib...

SUSE CVE-2021-20315

A locking protection bypass flaw was found in some versions of gnome-shell as shipped within CentOS Stream 8, when the "Application menu" or "Window list" GNOME extensions are enabled. This flaw allows a physical attacker who has access to a locked system to kill existing applications and start n...

gnome-shell bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for gnome-shell. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list GNOME Shell acts as a compositing manager for the desktop, and displays...

gnome-shell-extensions bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for gnome-shell-extensions. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the...

gnome-shell bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for gnome-shell. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux...

Gnome Shell, gettext, libcroco: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. gettext contains the GNU locale utilities. libcroco is a standalone CSS2 parsing and manipulation library. Description The crparserparseanycore function in...

GLSA-202208-33 : Gnome Shell, gettext, libcroco: Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202208-33 Gnome Shell, gettext, libcroco: Multiple Vulnerabilities - libcroco through 0.6.13 has excessive recursion in crparserparseanycore in cr-parser.c, leading to stack consumption. CVE-2020-12825 Note that Nessus has not...

Information Leakage

gnome-shell is vulnerable to information leakage. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visible for a brief moment upon a logout. I...

new packages: chrome-gnome-shell

An update is available for chrome-gnome-shell. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky...

new packages: gnome-shell-extension-background-logo

An update is available for gnome-shell-extension-background-logo. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this...