CVE-2014-7300
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests and leveraging a temporary lock outage, and the resulting temporary shell availability, caused by the Linux kernel OOM killer.
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnome:gnome-shell
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/17
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0535.html
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737456
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=a72dca361080ffc9f45ff90188a7cf013c3c4013
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=f02b007337e61436aaa0e81a86ad707b6d277378