Bug 565527 (CVE-2010-0732)

Summary:	CVE-2010-0732 gnome-screensaver: Race condition between shaking the unlock dialog and clearing the screen
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jmccann, mclasen, rcvalle, rstrode, vdanen
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598476
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-02-15 15:18:53 UTC

Chris Coulson reported gnome-screensaver is prone to race
condition between two subsequent actions -- shaking the
unlock dialog and clearing the screen. A local attacker
could use this flaw to cause a denial of service
(gnome-screensaver crash), which allows physically proximate
attackers to access an unattended workstation on which screen
locking had been intended.

Upstream bug report:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598476

Upstream patch:
  http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/commit/?id=ab08cc93f2dc6223c8c00bfa1ca4f2d89069dbe0

CVE Request:
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/12/1

References:
  http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Gnome-Bildschirmsperre-in-OpenSuse-Linux-wirkungslos-928580.html

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-02-15 15:22:41 UTC

This issue affects the version of the gnome-screensaver package,
as shipped with Red Hat Enteprise Linux 5.

This issue affects the current version of the gnome-screensaver
package, as shipped with Fedora release of 11
(gnome-screensaver-2.26.1-3.fc11).

This issue does NOT affect the current version of
the gnome-screensaver package, as shipped with Fedora 12
(gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-1.fc12) -- this issue was already
addressed here.

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-02-15 16:30:17 UTC

this bug isn't a gnome-screensaver bug.  It was a gtk bug. The patch from Chris
Coulson was commited, but it wasn't the fix for the problem.  The fix for the
problem was in gtk.    

Fix was here:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=0748cf563d0d0d03001a62589f13be16a8ec06c1    

This bug does not affect RHEL5 or Fedora 11.

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2010-03-16 17:13:16 UTC

This issue was assigned CVE-2010-0732.