-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-985b68721b 2016-09-09 16:20:18.939263 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : slock Product : Fedora 24 Version : 1.3 Release : 2.fc24 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This release fixes CVE-2016-6866, a crash when verifying a password for a user without a valid shadow hash entry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1368369 - CVE-2016-6866 slock: Null pointer dereference results in segmentation fault https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368369 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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