PT-2014-7892 · Gnome+5 · Gnome Shell+5

Published 2014-10-15 · Updated 2016-08-31 · CVE-2014-7300

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNOME Shell versions 3.14.x through 3.14.0

Description The issue allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests. This is possible when the Screen Lock feature is used and the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests is not limited, leading to a temporary lock outage and shell availability due to the Linux kernel OOM killer.

Recommendations For GNOME Shell versions 3.14.x through 3.14.0, update to version 3.14.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2267

CESA-2015_0535

CVE-2014-7300

MGASA-2014-0501

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10441-1

RHSA-2015:0535

RHSA-2015_0535

SUSE-SU-2015:0515-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0515-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Gnome Shell

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

Suse

References · 48

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:0515-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0501.html · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141115.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=f02b007337e61436aaa0e81a86ad707b6d277378 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7300 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7300 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-7300 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7300 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0535.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7300 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0535.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-7300 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2267 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7300 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=a72dca361080ffc9f45ff90188a7cf013c3c4013 · Patch