CVE-2007-1859 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-1859 at MITRE

Description

XScreenSaver 4.10, when using a remote directory service for credentials, does not properly handle the results from the getpwuid function in drivers/lock.c when there is no network connectivity, which causes XScreenSaver to crash and unlock the screen and allows local users to bypass authentication.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 266483 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 377961 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2007:009, published Fri, 04 May 2007 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:00:10 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:55 2025