CVE-2016-6866

Description

slock allows attackers to bypass the screen lock via vectors involving an invalid password hash, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference and crash.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RZPEJQNVODYSI4WQXM5GQKXRO7TPK2VG/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2FYPV6QQPPYBL3Z2BYNYEJB67FSC55OR/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92546

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/24

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/22

http://s1m0n.dft-labs.eu/files/slock/slock.txt

http://git.suckless.org/slock/commit/?id=d8bec0f6fdc8a246d78cb488a0068954b46fcb29

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3