high7.2
CVE-2014-7300
GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which all…
Impact
GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests and leveraging a temporary lock outage, and the resulting temporary shell availability, caused by the Linux kernel OOM killer.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnome | Gnome-Shell | Version 3.14.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Desktop | Version 7.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Hpc Node | Version 7.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Server | Version 7.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Workstation | Version 7.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/17
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0535.html
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737456
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=a72dca361080ffc9f45ff90188a7cf013c3c4013
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=f02b007337e61436aaa0e81a86ad707b6d277378
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/17
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0535.html
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737456
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=a72dca361080ffc9f45ff90188a7cf013c3c4013
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=f02b007337e61436aaa0e81a86ad707b6d277378