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gnome-screensaver: keyboard lock bypass

Package(s):gnome-screensaver CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3920
Created:October 24, 2007 Updated:October 15, 2009
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Jens Askengren discovered that gnome-screensaver became confused when running under Compiz, and could lose keyboard lock focus. A local attacker could exploit this to bypass the user's locked screen saver.

Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:027 2008-06-13
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0485-02 2008-05-21
Fedora FEDORA-2008-0956 2008-01-24
Fedora FEDORA-2008-0930 2008-01-24
Ubuntu USN-537-2 2007-11-02
Ubuntu USN-537-1 2007-10-23

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