CVE-2007-1859 Information

Description

XScreenSaver 4.10 when using a remote directory service for credentials does not properly handle the results from the getpwuid function in drivers/lock.c when there is no network connectivity which causes XScreenSaver to crash and unlock the screen and allows local users to bypass authentication.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/35531 http://secunia.com/advisories/25065 http://secunia.com/advisories/25105 http://secunia.com/advisories/25116 http://secunia.com/advisories/25118 http://secunia.com/advisories/25119 http://secunia.com/advisories/25225 http://secunia.com/advisories/25610 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-14.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:097 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_9_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0322.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23783 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017996 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-474-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34054 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1293 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11459