CVE-2004-2655 Information

Description

rdesktop 1.3.1 with xscreensaver 4.14 and possibly other versions when running on Fedora and possibly other platforms does not release the keyboard focus when xscreensaver starts which causes the password to be entered into the active window when the user unlocks the screen.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060602-01-U.asc http://secunia.com/advisories/20226 http://secunia.com/advisories/20456 http://secunia.com/advisories/20782 http://secunia.com/advisories/22080 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016150 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016151 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-107.htm http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.security/2004-08/0018.html http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:071 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_23_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0498.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17471 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188149 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10096 https://usn.ubuntu.com/269-1/