GNOME Shell: Information disclosure

Background GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. Description It was discovered that GNOME Shell incorrectly handled the login screen password dialog. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

USN-4464-1 gnome-shell vulnerability

It was discovered that GNOME Shell incorrectly handled the login screen password dialog. Sensitive information could possibly be exposed during user logout...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6630

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An authenticated user can trigger a denial-of-service DoS attack by entering a very long password at the change password dialog. All 4.6.x versions prior to 4.6.4, 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.15.8, and 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.10.17 are affected...

ALPINE-CVE-2016-6630

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An authenticated user can trigger a denial-of-service DoS attack by entering a very long password at the change password dialog. All 4.6.x versions prior to 4.6.4, 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.15.8, and 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.10.17 are affected...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6630

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An authenticated user can trigger a denial-of-service DoS attack by entering a very long password at the change password dialog. All 4.6.x versions prior to 4.6.4, 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.15.8, and 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.10.17 are affected...

CVE-2008-2145

Stack-based buffer overflow in Novell Client 4.91 SP4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long username in the "forgotten password" dialog...

Fedora 7 : xscreensaver-5.03-14.fc7 (2007-2721)

Related to bug 336331, another case is found which causes xscreensaver password dialog crash. This time a patch from upstream developer is applied and this release 'really' fixes this problem. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedor...

Fedora 7 : rss-glx-0.8.1.p-15.fc7 / tempest-0-0.4.20070929.fc7 / xscreensaver-5.03-12.fc7 (2007-2652)

A bug was reported that xscreensaver unlocking password dialog crashes randomly. It is found this problem occurs when GL hack is launched without gl helper binary installed. The new three packages fixes this issue. Now packages which contain GL xscreensaver hacks also install gl helper binary...

Security update 1970-01-01

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