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CVE-2014-5195

Published: 7 August 2014

Unity before 7.2.3 and 7.3.x before 7.3.1, as used in Ubuntu, does not properly take focus of the keyboard when switching to the lock screen, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by (1) leveraging a machine that had text selected when locking or (2) resuming from a suspension.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
unity
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

lucid Does not exist

precise Not vulnerable

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was released [7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1])