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Bug#: 176913
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: DUPLICATE of bug 176584
Assigned To: Gentoo Security <security@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Pierre-Yves Rofes <py@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2007-05-03 12:53 0000 
Alex Yamauchi has reported a weakness in XScreenSaver, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The weakness is caused due to an error within the parsing of results of a call
to "getpwuid()" in drivers/lock.c when using directory servers during a network
outage. This can be exploited to e.g. crash XScreenSaver and thus gain access
to a locked system.

Solution:
Update to version 5.02.

------- Comment #1 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-05-03 12:56:53 0000 ------- 
setting status and cc'ing herd. desktop-misc, please advise.

------- Comment #2 From Samuli Suominen 2007-05-03 13:10:45 0000 ------- 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 176584 ***
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