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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201309-03">
<title>Xlockmore: Denial of Service</title>
<synopsis>A buffer overflow in Xlockmore might allow remote attackers to
cause a Denial of Service.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">Xlockmore</product>
<announced>2013-09-02</announced>
<revised count="1">2013-09-02</revised>
<bug>255229</bug>
<bug>440776</bug>
<bug>477328</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="x11-misc/xlockmore" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">5.43</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">5.43</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Xlockmore is just another screensaver application for X.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A Denial of Service flaw was found in the way Xlockmore performed
the passing of arguments to the underlying localtime() call, when the
dlock mode was used.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition and
potentially obtain unauthorized access to the graphical session,
previously locked by another user.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Xlockmore users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=x11-misc/xlockmore-5.43"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4524">CVE-2012-4524</uri>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4143">CVE-2013-4143</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-12-16T22:04:18Z">craig</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-09-02T09:00:54Z">
pinkbyte
</metadata>
</glsa>