Name | CVE-2019-3820 |
Description | It was discovered that the gnome-shell lock screen since version 3.15.91 did not properly restrict all contextual actions. An attacker with physical access to a locked workstation could invoke certain keyboard shortcuts, and potentially other actions. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 921490 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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gnome-shell (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.38.6-1~deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 43.9-0+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 47.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - gnome-shell <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - gnome-shell <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Introduced by: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745039
Introduced by: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/commit/c79d24b60e773262091023feb6ee1b3deef1c471
Upstream issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/851