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Re: CVE request for Gnome gdm/screen lock crash


From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:22:58 -0700

Ah apologies, I missed the email (was on PTO for the last week) where
Martin assigned one:

CVE-2015-7496 gdm: crash when holding Escape in lock screen



On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com> wrote:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758032

Christoph Reiter (lazka) 2015-11-12 22:14:26 UTC

Credit to my cat for finding this..

* Running gnome session
* Press <super>+l to lock
* Press Escape and hold

Expected:

* The slider thing going up an down in an endless loop

Happing:

* After ~5 times the slider window coming and going GS crashes

using GS 3.18.1 on debian sid

Comment 1 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758032#c1>



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