Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:13:28 +0000 (UTC) From: Jason Helfman <jgh@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r306051 - head/security/vuxml Message-ID: <201210180413.q9I4DS2s041297@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: jgh Date: Thu Oct 18 04:13:27 2012 New Revision: 306051 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/306051 Log: - clarify end-user impact for 57652765-18aa-11e2-8382-00a0d181e71d Suggested by: simon@ Feature safe: yes Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml ============================================================================== --- head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Thu Oct 18 02:10:10 2012 (r306050) +++ head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Thu Oct 18 04:13:27 2012 (r306051) @@ -64,17 +64,10 @@ Note: Please add new entries to the beg <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Ignatios Souvatzis of NetBSD reports:</p> <blockquote cite="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/17/10"> - <p>localtime accesses a (in the discovered case) 64bit value, which - is likely not to be valid, and returns a null pointer as an error - indication. The code in dclock.c does not check for this but, - depending on additional command-line options, either dereferences - the pointer or passes it to strftime() unconditionally, which in - turn triggers a segmentation fault, terminating the program and - leaving the terminal unlocked.</p> - <p>While this is unexpected, the dangerous case is where - "xlockmore -mode random" calls the mode "dclock" after a while, - when the user has left the terminal, not noticing that it will - (eventually) be unlocked.</p> + <p>Due to an error in the dclock screensaver in xlockmore, users who + explicitly use this screensaver or a random mix of screensavers using + something like "xlockmore -mode random" may have their screen unlocked + unexpectedly at a random time.</p> </blockquote> </body> </description>
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