Bug 632973 (CVE-2006-7240)

Summary:	CVE-2006-7240 gnome-power-manager: Screen not locked on resume from hibernate / suspend
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	rhughes
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-12 09:58:51 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2006-7240 to
the following vulnerability:

gnome-power-manager 2.14.0 does not properly implement the
lock_on_suspend and lock_on_hibernate settings for locking the screen
when the suspend or hibernate button is pressed, which might make it
easier for physically proximate attackers to access an unattended
laptop via a resume action, a related issue to CVE-2010-2532.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-7240
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/42052

Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2010-09-13 09:16:05 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> gnome-power-manager 2.14.0 does not properly implement the
> lock_on_suspend and lock_on_hibernate settings for locking the screen
> when the suspend or hibernate button is pressed, which might make it
> easier for physically proximate attackers to access an unattended
> laptop via a resume action, a related issue to CVE-2010-2532.

Unless the admin has set /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock/use_screensaver_settings to FALSE, it uses the screensaver settings. That's not a bug surely?

Richard.

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-09-15 04:25:36 UTC

I think the ubuntu bug is referring to the scenario where use_screensaver_settings is set to FALSE, which results in gnome-power-manager not locking the screen.

Comment 9 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-09-17 14:09:52 UTC

This issue did not affect the versions of the gnome-power-manager packages, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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This issue did not affect the versions of the gnome-power-manager packages, as shipped with Fedora 12 and 13.