Fedora 23: slock Security Update
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 .