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Message-ID: <3089008.7Vjmlmn4H0@xps>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:00:49 +0100
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid@....org>
To: cve-assign@...re.org
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, security@....org
Subject: Re: KDE Plasma vulnerability: need CVE

El Tuesday 09 February 2016, a les 18:37:26, cve-assign@...re.org va escriure:
> > https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160209-1.txt
> > 
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358125
> > https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964548
> > 
> > Qt allows to have no screens. If all XRandR screens are disconnected
> > there are also no QScreens. This is from an X11 perspective wrong, but
> > we have to deal with it. No QScreens means that all views are destroyed
> > and no new ones are created. Thus all windows close and the greeter
> > exited successfully which in turn unlocked the screen.
> 
> Use CVE-2016-2312.

Thanks for the quick answer :)

Cheers,
  Albert

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