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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-7e817cbf55
2016-09-09 16:20:23.689401
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Name        : slock
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 1.3
Release     : 2.fc23
URL         : http://tools.suckless.org/slock/
Summary     : Simple X display locker
Description :
This is the simplest X screen locker we are aware of.  It is stable and
quite a lot people in this community are using it every day when they
are out with friends or fetching some food from the local pub.

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Update Information:

This release fixes CVE-2016-6866, a crash when verifying a password for a user
without a valid shadow hash entry.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1368369 - CVE-2016-6866 slock: Null pointer dereference results in segmentation fault
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368369
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update slock' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 23: slock Security Update

September 9, 2016
This release fixes CVE-2016-6866, a crash when verifying a password for a user without a valid shadow hash entry.

Summary

This is the simplest X screen locker we are aware of. It is stable and

quite a lot people in this community are using it every day when they

are out with friends or fetching some food from the local pub.

Update Information:

This release fixes CVE-2016-6866, a crash when verifying a password for a user without a valid shadow hash entry.

Change Log

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1368369 - CVE-2016-6866 slock: Null pointer dereference results in segmentation fault https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368369

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update slock' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Severity
Name : slock
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 1.3
Release : 2.fc23
URL : http://tools.suckless.org/slock/
Summary : Simple X display locker

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