CVE-2014-7300 Information

Description

GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1 when the Screen Lock feature is used does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests and leveraging a temporary lock outage and the resulting temporary shell availability caused by the Linux kernel OOM killer.

Reference

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/17 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0535.html https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737456 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=a72dca361080ffc9f45ff90188a7cf013c3c4013 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=f02b007337e61436aaa0e81a86ad707b6d277378