CVE-2009-4642

2010-02-1100:00:00

ubuntu.com

7.2 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.2%

JSON

gnome-screensaver 2.26.1 relies on the gnome-session D-Bus interface to
determine session idle time, even when an Xfce desktop such as Xubuntu or
Mythbuntu is used, which allows physically proximate attackers to access an
unattended workstation on which screen locking had been intended.

Bugs

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536381>

Notes

Author	Note
kees	While it looks like a gnome-screensaver bug, for stable releases, this is an issue primarily for xfce, which doesn’t use g-ss correctly. Going forward, gnome-session has been added to the g-ss package deps so that the issue is more obvious to integration attempts of g-ss.