CVE-2007-3920

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2007-10-19
Bugzilla:
350271: CVE-2007-3920 gnome-screensaver loses keyboard grab when running under compiz

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

GNOME screensaver 2.20 in Ubuntu 7.10, when used with Compiz, does not properly reserve input focus, which allows attackers with physical access to take control of the session after entering an Alt-Tab sequence, a related issue to CVE-2007-3069.

Find out more about CVE-2007-3920 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with a low security impact. An update to the compiz package was released to correct this issue:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0485.html

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (compiz) RHSA-2008:0485 2008-05-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (compiz) RHSA-2008:0485 2008-05-19

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