Advisory Published
Updated

REDHAT-BUG-1391126

First published: Wed Nov 02 2016(Updated: )

Gnome GDM 3.14.2 and possibly later are vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability, specifically when a laptop screen is closed to trigger the screen lock, and the lid is then re-opened the previous contents of the screen are visible for approx. 1 second, which is long enough to take a picture or video record it before the lock screen kicks in.

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
GNOME libraries=3.14.2>undefined

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