Auth bypass in Xscreensaver

CVE-2007-1859

XScreenSaver 4.10, when using a remote directory service for credentials, does not properly handle the results from the getpwuid function in drivers/lock.c when there is no network connectivity, which causes XScreenSaver to crash and unloc…

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.004 (32.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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