gnome-screensaver loses keyboard grab when running under compiz

GNOME screensaver 2.20 in Ubuntu 7.10, when used with Compiz, does not properly reserve input focus, which allows attackers with physical access to take control of the session after entering an Alt-Tab sequence, a related issue to CVE-2007-3069...

CVE-2008-2040

Stack-based buffer overflow in the HTTP::getAuthUserPass function core/common/http.cpp in Peercast 0.1218 and gnome-peercast allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Basic Authentication string with a long 1 username or 2 password...

CVE-2008-2040

Stack-based buffer overflow in the HTTP::getAuthUserPass function core/common/http.cpp in Peercast 0.1218 and gnome-peercast allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Basic Authentication string with a long 1 username or 2 password...

gnome security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0197 An updated gnome-screensaver package that fixes a security flaw is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. gnome-screensaver is the GNOME...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: epiphany-extensions-2.20.1-7.fc8

Epiphany Extensions is a collection of extensions for Epiphany, the GNOME web browser...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: epiphany-2.20.3-3.fc8

epiphany is a simple GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: ruby-gnome2-0.16.0-22.fc8

This is a set of bindings for the GNOME-2.x libraries for use from Ruby...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: devhelp-0.16.1-7.fc8

An API document browser for GNOME 2...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-14.fc8

The gnome-python-extra package contains the source packages for additional Python bindings for GNOME. It should be used together with gnome-python...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: galeon-2.0.4-2.fc8.3

Galeon is a web browser built around Gecko Mozilla's rendering engine and Necko Mozilla's networking engine. It's a GNOME web browser, designed to take advantage of as many GNOME technologies as makes sense. Galeon was written to do just one thing - browse the web...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: gnome-web-photo-0.3-10.fc8

gnome-web-photo contains a thumbnailer that will be used by GNOME applicati ons, including the file manager, to generate screenshots of web pages...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: yelp-2.20.0-9.fc8

Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed to help you browse all the documentation on your system in one central tool...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: epiphany-extensions-2.18.3-9

Epiphany Extensions is a collection of extensions for Epiphany, the GNOME web browser...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: epiphany-2.18.3-9.fc7

epiphany is a simple GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: gnome-python2-extras-2.14.3-10.fc7

The gnome-python-extra package contains the source packages for additional Python bindings for GNOME. It should be used together with gnome-python...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: yelp-2.18.1-11.fc7

Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed to help you browse all the documentation on your system in one central tool...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: galeon-2.0.3-17.fc7

Galeon is a web browser built around Gecko Mozilla's rendering engine and Necko Mozilla's networking engine. It's a GNOME web browser, designed to take advantage of as many GNOME technologies as makes sense. Galeon was written to do just one thing - browse the web...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: devhelp-0.13-16.fc7

An API document browser for GNOME 2...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1546-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

GLSA-200804-12 : gnome-screensaver: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200804-12 gnome-screensaver: Privilege escalation gnome-screensaver incorrectly handles the results of the getpwuid function in the file src/setuid.c when using directory servers like NIS during a network outage, a similar issue t...