Name | CVE-2008-7320 |
Description | GNOME Seahorse through 3.30 allows physically proximate attackers to read plaintext passwords by using the quickAllow dialog at an unattended workstation, if the keyring is unlocked. NOTE: this is disputed by a software maintainer because the behavior represents a design decision |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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seahorse (PTS) | jessie | 3.14.0-2 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 3.20.0-3.1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 3.30.1.1-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 3.38.0.1-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 43.0-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 47.0.1-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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seahorse | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/189774
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/189774/comments/13
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551036
Explicitly a design decision by upstream and not considered a security issue