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openSUSE: 2019:1529-1 Moderate: gnome-shell Lock Screen Bypass

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Calendar Grey June 7, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A recent security patch for gnome-shell on openSUSE addresses a vulnerability that allowed users to bypass the lock screen.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for gnome-shell fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2019-3820: Fixed a partial lock screen bypass (bsc#1124493).

Fixed bugs:

- Remove sessionList of endSessionDialog for security reasons

(jsc#SLE-6660).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2: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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1529=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

gnome-shell-3.20.4-22.1

gnome-shell-browser-plugin-3.20.4-22.1

gnome-shell-browser-plugin-debuginfo-3.20.4-22.1

gnome-shell-calendar-3.20.4-22.1

gnome-shell-calendar-debuginfo-3.20.4-22.1

gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.20.4-22.1

gnome-shell-debugsource-3.20.4-22.1

gnome-shell-devel-3.20.4-22.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

gnome-shell-lang-3.20.4-22.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3820.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1124493

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1529-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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