Advisories ยป MGASA-2014-0501

Updated gnome-shell and gnome-settings-daemon packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 01 Dec 2014
Modification date: 01 Dec 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-7300

Description

The lock screen in gnome-shell does not disable taking screenshots via the
Print Screen key, and several consecutive screenshot requests can trigger an
out-of-memory situation, causing the lock screen to be killed, thus allowing
it to be bypassed (CVE-2014-7300).
                

References

SRPMS

4/core