CVE-2009-4642

Summary

CVECVE-2009-4642
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-02-11 21:30:00 UTC
Updated2010-03-22 04:00:00 UTC
Descriptiongnome-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Screensaver 2.26.1 All All All
Application Gnome Screensaver 2.26.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
#536381 - gnome-screensaver: idle time on the computer is not taken into account - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
Bug #411350 “gnome-screensaver not functioning” : Bugs : “gnome-screensaver” package : Ubuntu CONFIRM launchpad.net
Bug #493573 “gnome-screensaver doesn't activate under XFCE” : Bugs : xfce4-session package : Ubuntu CONFIRM launchpad.net
5927 – gnome-screensaver not activated CONFIRM bugzilla.xfce.org
Bug 592093 – Reliance on gnome-session CONFIRM bugzilla.gnome.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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