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openSUSE: 2019:0310-1 Moderate Alert for gdm Lock Screen Bypass Issue

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This Debian announcement reviews a security patch for lightdm that rectifies a screen lock circumvention and various system improvements.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 5 fixes is now available.

Description

This update for gdm fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2019-3825: Fixed a lock screen bypass when timed login was enabled

(bsc#1124628).

Other issues fixed:

- GLX applications do not work well when the proprietary nvidia driver is

used with a wayland session. Because of that this update disables

wayland on that hardware (bsc#1112578).

- Fixed an issue where gdm restart fails to kill user processes

(bsc#1112294 and bsc#1113245).

- Fixed a System halt in the screen with message "End of ORACLE section"

(bsc#1120307).

- Fixed an issue which did not allow the returning to text console when

gdm is stopped (bsc#1113700).

- Fixed an issue which was causing system hang during the load of gdm

(bsc#1112578).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-310=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

gdm-3.26.2.1-lp150.11.9.1

gdm-debuginfo-3.26.2.1-lp150.11.9.1

gdm-debugsource-3.26.2.1-lp150.11.9.1

gdm-devel-3.26.2.1-lp150.11.9.1

libgdm1-3.26.2.1-lp150.11.9.1

libgdm1-debuginfo-3.26.2.1-lp150.11.9.1

typelib-1_0-Gdm-1_0-3.26.2.1-lp150.11.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

gdm-branding-upstream-3.26.2.1-lp150.11.9.1

gdm-lang-3.26.2.1-lp150.11.9.1

gdmflexiserver-3.26.2.1-lp150.11.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3825.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1112294

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1112578

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113245

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113700

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1120307

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1124628

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0310-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 le.

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