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Re: CVE request: xscreensaver aborts when unpluging second monitor cable when asking password
From: cve-assign () mitre org
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:05:50 -0400 (EDT)
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274452 https://twitter.com/Thaolia/status/656823859304398848 http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xscreensaver.git/diff/xscreensaver-5.33-0002-Modify-sigchld_hander-in_signal_hander_p-mechanism.patch?id=b57f59f3482fedf70ce7a3541094e2512290139f https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/10/xscreensaver-5-34/
xscreensaver-5.33/driver/subprocs.c
The proximate cause was that an internal consistency check failed because I meant to be checking "am I running on the signal stack?" but I was checking "is the SIGCHLD signal currently inhibited?" instead.
Use CVE-2015-8025. - -- CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority M/S M300 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA [ PGP key available through http://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWMlGVAAoJEL54rhJi8gl5cbsP/iOTyk0Dxi4iqiRckHQUOJTT PF15byPeuiGq2A1Hg1gGVjKztsAdkXVBp12wz2ABNWYP/1us976Sb4pHdGHI2dOc DAMOpZooBxcLl44xfdvQ4IBhFzQ82oFM4Udm8YuM1fzKvrCVuk25rKdravnhSqgs +5zXxSjiFJ8iHIAQB7RVVvK2vMCY9CR0OjZ6O9vo9ZMrmT75ERZ8obLDYnCVI7CI BTRz6/mp+JHjs51t+nuxD3n5t6j/hKIcmDDjeEwPOf6emCduJplrTLBN4Px53seT /zUZtK3JQeFSMuj+A/TR9RqCoUIAdrB38qs5wkOyRtzKGO/QcQYZ/n5G2ufx1BjX THGZDVEYyEz7YOUW3eMKGpeFM58JhrKWaL8F4fXgAZOfrdwuoNdh3YqPfYYkfKDk i4pHX/WWTV8tqo7Vz5cmoW4l74+xcTvP9TE0IbBZz9ZjT4runf17OktKrrJJKCkz y6WzY8MaX6Q5Ua2Zvl2CORLBCD3rIqsWkXFa2tdQimqKDxQ1+T5BDTrgP4P50drw 5v9HcPtRKoTBKu0ovxKMC47/vOdHX39KKfvOXP7+NR5md3NcneGFEi5zAYPSc8qb gH2cxqcw0FslrZm+5n9ufJIBCc5rDkQewyUqtzv90pzL97FOfqjgVHuHZuoF/Dip WpYCibKW9zQ2/lFfnLRN =vSZ7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- CVE request: xscreensaver aborts when unpluging second monitor cable when asking password Mamoru TASAKA (Oct 24)
- Re: CVE request: xscreensaver aborts when unpluging second monitor cable when asking password Mamoru TASAKA (Oct 25)
- Re: CVE request: xscreensaver aborts when unpluging second monitor cable when asking password cve-assign (Oct 29)