Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-5585 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Xscreensaver 5.03
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
xscreensaver 5.03 and earlier, when running without xscreensaver-gl-extras (GL extras) installed, crashes when /usr/bin/xscreensaver-gl-helper does not exist and a user attempts to unlock the screen, which allows attackers with physical access to gain access to the locked session.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2007-2891.NASL description Related to bug 336331, another case is found which causes xscreensaver password dialog crash. This time a patch from upstream developer is applied and this release last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 27812 published 2007-11-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/27812 title Fedora 8 : xscreensaver-5.03-14.fc8 (2007-2891) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2007-2652.NASL description A bug was reported that xscreensaver unlocking password dialog crashes randomly. It is found this problem occurs when GL hack is launched without gl helper binary installed. The new three packages fixes this issue. Now packages which contain GL xscreensaver hacks also install gl helper binary correctly. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 27784 published 2007-11-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/27784 title Fedora 7 : rss-glx-0.8.1.p-15.fc7 / tempest-0-0.4.20070929.fc7 / xscreensaver-5.03-12.fc7 (2007-2652) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2007-2721.NASL description Related to bug 336331, another case is found which causes xscreensaver password dialog crash. This time a patch from upstream developer is applied and this release last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 27798 published 2007-11-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/27798 title Fedora 7 : xscreensaver-5.03-14.fc7 (2007-2721)