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  • Committer: Steve Beattie
  • Date: 2019-02-19 06:18:27 UTC
  • Revision ID: sbeattie@ubuntu.com-20190219061827-oh57fzcfc1u9dlfk
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PublicDate: 2008-04-09
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Candidate: CVE-2008-NNN2
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References: 
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Description: 
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Ubuntu-Description: 
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Notes: 
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 jdstrand> dapper - feisty doesn't use have 'Leave message' enabled
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 jdstrand> I couldn't reproduce this-- putting a large amount of text doesn't
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  crash gnome-screensaver-- only makes it 'hang' after which it works fine
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 jdstrand> seems to be OOM local DoS only.  In gs-lock-plug.c submit_note()
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   gnome-screensaver uses gtk_* functions for dealing with the note text, so
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   no overrun potential. Could invoke OOM killer with disabling swap and using
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   large amount of text
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Bugs: 
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 https://launchpad.net/bugs/196844
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Priority: low
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Discovered-by: Mark Featherston
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Assigned-to: 
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Patches_gnome-screensaver:
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upstream_gnome-screensaver: needs-triage
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dapper_gnome-screensaver: not-affected
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hardy_gnome-screensaver: released (2.22.2-0ubuntu1)
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intrepid_gnome-screensaver: released (2.22.2-0ubuntu1)
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devel_gnome-screensaver: released (2.22.2-0ubuntu1)