National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0923
Original release date:03/03/2010
Last revised:03/04/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Race condition in workspace/krunner/lock/lockdlg.cc in the KRunner lock module in kdebase in KDE SC 4.4.0 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass KScreenSaver screen locking and access an unattended workstation by pressing the Enter key at a certain time, related to multiple forked processes.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0409
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1089241
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://websvn.kde.org/?revision=1089213&view=revision
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579280
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217882
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100217 Re: Re: CVE Request: KDE screensaver unlock issue similar to GNOME one
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100217-1.txt
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/krunner/lock/lockdlg.cc?r1=1089213&r2=1089212&pathrev=1089213
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1023641
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38600
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100212 Re: Re: CVE Request: KDE screensaver unlock issue similar to GNOME one
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100212 Re: CVE Request: KDE screensaver unlock issue similar to GNOME one
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100212 CVE Request: KDE screensaver unlock issue similar to GNOME one
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226449