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Fedora 36: FEDORA-2023-7c2b21f6b4 high: xorg-server Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 5, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Debian 9 patches glibc to fix CVE-2018-1000719 vulnerability, bolstering system protection.
This release fixes CVE-2016-6866, a crash when verifying a password for a user without a valid shadow hash entry.

Summary

This is the simplest X screen locker we are aware of. It is stable and

quite a lot people in this community are using it every day when they

are out with friends or fetching some food from the local pub.

Update Information:

This release fixes CVE-2016-6866, a crash when verifying a password for a user without a valid shadow hash entry.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora crash fix user authentication slock

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1368369 - CVE-2016-6866 slock: Null pointer dereference results in segmentation fault https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368369

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update slock' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: slock
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.3
Release: 2.fc25
URL: http://tools.suckless.org/slock/
Summary: Simple X display locker

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora crash fix user authentication slock

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