CVE-2021-20315

NameCVE-2021-20315
DescriptionA locking protection bypass flaw was found in some versions of gnome-shell as shipped within CentOS Stream 8, when the "Application menu" or "Window list" GNOME extensions are enabled. This flaw allows a physical attacker who has access to a locked system to kill existing applications and start new ones as the locked user, even if the session is still locked.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
gnome-shell (PTS)jessie3.14.4-1~deb8u1fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch3.22.3-3+deb9u1fixed
buster3.30.2-11~deb10u2fixed
bullseye3.38.6-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm43.9-0+deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)43.6-1~deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie44.9-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
gnome-shellsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- gnome-shell <not-affected> (Red Hat-specific backport error to CentOS 8 Streams)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2006285

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