CVE-2014-7300

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.

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking, Patch
• cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking, Patch
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Patch
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Patch