CVE-2012-3452

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

gnome-screensaver 3.4.x before 3.4.4 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, when multiple screens are used, only locks the screen with the active focus, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass screen locking and access an unattended workstation.

Find out more about CVE-2012-3452 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of gnome-screensaver as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as they did not include the upstream commit 43ee32edaddb9b9b9f4b43c47ca73d7b4eea9fae that introduced this issue.

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