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CVE-2017-8288

Description

gnome-shell 3.22 through 3.24.1 mishandles extensions that fail to reload, which can lead to leaving extensions enabled in the lock screen. With these extensions, a bystander could launch applications (but not interact with them), see information from the extensions (e.g., what applications you have opened or what music you were playing), or even execute arbitrary commands. It all depends on what extensions a user has enabled. The problem is caused by lack of exception handling in js/ui/extensionSystem.js.

Risk Information

Base Score
8.1
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.309

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
SUSE-SU-2017:2217-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) gnome-shell-3.20.4-77.7.5.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2017:2217-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) gnome-shell-browser-plugin-3.20.4-77.7.5.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2017:2217-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) gnome-shell-browser-plugin-debuginfo-3.20.4-77.7.5.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2017:2217-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) gnome-shell-calendar-3.20.4-77.7.5.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2017:2217-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) gnome-shell-calendar-debuginfo-3.20.4-77.7.5.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2017:2217-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.20.4-77.7.5.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2017:2217-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) gnome-shell-debugsource-3.20.4-77.7.5.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2017:2217-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) gnome-shell-lang-3.20.4-77.7.5.noarch.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234