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| GNOME Desktop on Solaris May Not Let Root Users Lock the Screen |
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Categorie: Vulnerability
Posted: 2003-09-27 by ReCall
Views: 356
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in the Gnome desktop in XScreenSaver, as distributed on Sun Solaris. Certain users may not be able to lock the screen.
Sun reported that root users running the GNOME desktop cannot lock the screen via XScreenSaver. Additional information is available at:
GNOME 2.0 (for Solaris 8 or 9) is affected.
[Editor's note: It appears that this may be a design feature of XScreenSaver intended to minimize security issues of running the screen saver with root privileges. See: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-lock]
Impact: A root user cannot lock the screen using the screen saver.
Solution: Sun has also released the following fix for Solaris 9:
SPARC Platform
GNOME 2.0 (for Solaris 9) with patch 115158-03 or later
x86 Platform
GNOME 2.0 (for Solaris 9) with patch 115159-03 or later
A final solution for Solaris 8 is pending.
As a workaround, Sun reports that you can use xlock(1) from a command line.
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