CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-7300
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests and leveraging a temporary lock outage, and the resulting temporary shell availability, caused by the Linux kernel OOM killer.
Affected configurations
• gnome gnome-shell 3.14.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux hpc node 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/17 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0535.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737456 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=a72dca361080ffc9f45ff90188a7cf013c3c4013 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=f02b007337e61436aaa0e81a86ad707b6d277378 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/17 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0535.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737456 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=a72dca361080ffc9f45ff90188a7cf013c3c4013 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=f02b007337e61436aaa0e81a86ad707b6d277378 Issue Tracking, Patch