gnome-shell: lockscreen bypass with printscreen key

It was found that the Gnome shell did not disable the Print Screen key when the screen was locked. This could allow an attacker with physical access to a system with a locked screen to crash the screen-locking application by creating a large amount of screenshots...

RHEL 7 : GNOME Shell (RHSA-2015:0535)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0535 advisory. GNOME Shell and the packages it depends upon provide the core user interface of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop, including functions such as...

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...

DEBIAN-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...

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

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...

UBUNTU-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...

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...

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...

CVE-2014-7300

CVE-2014-7300 affects GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1; when the screen is locked, repeated PrtSc requests can exhaust memory and briefly surface a shell due to the Linux OOM killer, enabling local attackers to gain temporary access. The issue is addressed by upstream fixes in GNOME Shell 3.14.1 ...

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...

CVE-2014-7300: Undefined Security Weakness

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...

MGASA-2014-0501 Updated gnome-shell and gnome-settings-daemon packages fix security vulnerability

The lock screen in gnome-shell does not disable taking screenshots via the Print Screen key, and several consecutive screenshot requests can trigger an out-of-memory situation, causing the lock screen to be killed, thus allowing it to be bypassed CVE-2014-7300...

Updated gnome-shell and gnome-settings-daemon packages fix security vulnerability

The lock screen in gnome-shell does not disable taking screenshots via the Print Screen key, and several consecutive screenshot requests can trigger an out-of-memory situation, causing the lock screen to be killed, thus allowing it to be bypassed CVE-2014-7300...

Fedora 20 : gnome-shell-3.10.4-9.fc20 (2014-12690)

Security fix for lock screen circumvention by consecutive screenshot requests triggering OOM situation Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as...

Fedora Update for gnome-shell FEDORA-2014-12690

Check the version of gnome-shell SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.868412";...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: gnome-shell-3.10.4-9.fc20

GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a visually attractive and easy...

PT-2014-7892

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNOME Shell versions 3.14.x through 3.14.0 Description The issue allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests. This is possible when the Screen Lock feature is...

Fedora Update for gnome-shell FEDORA-2014-8183

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...