oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- gnome-desktop3: Switching users dialog does not lock the screen for the original user account

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Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 15:17:18 +0530
From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>, Richard Hughes <rhughes@...hat.com>,
        Ray Strode <rstrode@...hat.com>, lsof@...ata.co.uk,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- gnome-desktop3: Switching users
 dialog does not lock the screen for the original user account

Hi Steve, Josh,

It turned out that this issue is with gnome-screensaver-dialog, and this
does not kill the screensaver at all.
Hence is not a security issue.

Can we please have this CVE rejected? Thanks.

References:
Original report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697199

Upstream bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648234



On 04/21/2011 02:15 AM, Josh Bressers wrote:
> Please use CVE-2011-1596
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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