CVE-2013-2190 Information

Description

The translate_hierarchy_event function in x11/clutter-device-manager-xi2.c in Clutter when resuming the system does not properly handle XIQueryDevice errors when a device has \disappeared\ which causes the gnome-shell to crash and allows physically proximate attackers to access the previous gnome-shell session via unspecified vectors.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00014.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/19/1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701974 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980111 https://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/commit/?h=clutter-1.14&id=e310c68d7b38d521e341f4e8a36f54303079d74e https://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/commit/?h=clutter-1.16&id=d343cc6289583a7b0d929b82b740499ed588b1ab

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