PT-2017-9034 · Slock · Slock

Eric Pruitt · Published 2016-09-21 · Updated 2017-02-17 · CVE-2016-6866

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions slock (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows attackers to bypass the screen lock through vectors involving an invalid password hash. This triggers a NULL pointer dereference and crash.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6866

DLA-598-1

MGASA-2016-0308

Affected Products

Slock

References · 19

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2FYPV6QQPPYBL3Z2BYNYEJB67FSC55OR · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6866 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6866 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6866 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RZPEJQNVODYSI4WQXM5GQKXRO7TPK2VG · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6866 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6866 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6866 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6866 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0308.html · Security Note
• http://git.suckless.org/slock/commit/?id=d8bec0f6fdc8a246d78cb488a0068954b46fcb29 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/RZPEJQNVODYSI4WQXM5GQKXRO7TPK2VG · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0308 · Vendor Advisory
• http://s1m0n.dft-labs.eu/files/slock · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19218 · Note