Advisories

Mandriva Advisories

Package name xscreensaver Date April 11th, 2006 Advisory ID MDKSA-2006:071 Affected versions CS3.0 Synopsis Updated xscreensaver packages fix clear-text password vulnerability

Problem Description

Rdesktop, with xscreensaver < 4.18, does not release the keyboard focus
when xscreensaver starts, which causes the password to be entered into
the active window when the user unlocks the screen.

Updated xscreensaver packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 3.0

 7fca69b43dc054e02d1e635558a2871f  corporate/3.0/RPMS/xscreensaver-4.14-4.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 fcf51ed223e82ab32136b0ab40348300  corporate/3.0/RPMS/xscreensaver-extrusion-4.14-4.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 edfeccdb0f1406af612d97a7e0ee5a62  corporate/3.0/RPMS/xscreensaver-gl-4.14-4.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 d6c61c9ea67ee99f619c9abaa96ec133  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/xscreensaver-4.14-4.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 3.0/X86_64

 a03034b99a097249c616935bc5e9706c  x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/xscreensaver-4.14-4.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 ca12d4e28f3db44a9018dbc19b8243e9  x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/xscreensaver-extrusion-4.14-4.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 1d7534873b19a4497e7f577c03585460  x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/xscreensaver-gl-4.14-4.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 d6c61c9ea67ee99f619c9abaa96ec133  x86_64/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/xscreensaver-4.14-4.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2655

Upgrade

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Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

                rpm --checksig package.rpm
                

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.