CVE-2009-4642

Publication date 11 February 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

gnome-screensaver 2.26.1 relies on the gnome-session D-Bus interface to determine session idle time, even when an Xfce desktop such as Xubuntu or Mythbuntu is used, which allows physically proximate attackers to access an unattended workstation on which screen locking had been intended.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gnome-screensaver 11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected
xfce4-session 11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic Ignored end of life
9.04 jaunty Ignored end of life
8.10 intrepid Ignored end of life, was needed
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life

Notes

kees

While it looks like a gnome-screensaver bug, for stable releases, this is an issue primarily for xfce, which doesn’t use g-ss correctly. Going forward, gnome-session has been added to the g-ss package deps so that the issue is more obvious to integration attempts of g-ss.