| Name | CVE-2015-8025 |
| Description | driver/subprocs.c in XScreenSaver before 5.34 does not properly perform an internal consistency check, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by hot swapping monitors. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-338-1, DSA-3438-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 802914 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xscreensaver (PTS) | buster | 5.42+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.45+dfsg1-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.06+dfsg1-3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.08+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xscreensaver.git/plain/xscreensaver-5.33-0002-Modify-sigchld_hander-in_signal_hander_p-mechanism.patch?id=b57f59f3482fedf70ce7a3541094e2512290139f
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274452