CVE-2010-0923

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in workspace/krunner/lock/lockdlg.cc in the KRunner lock module in kdebase in KDE SC 4.4.0 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass KScreenSaver screen locking and access an unattended workstation by pressing the Enter key at a certain time, related to multiple forked processes.

Affected products

Kde Sc: 4.4.0

References

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226449
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126598163422670&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126599909614401&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126600468622421&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/38600
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023641
http://websvn.kde.org/?revision=1089213&view=revision
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1089241
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/krunner/lock/lockdlg.cc?r1=1089213&r2=1089212&pathrev=1089213
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100217-1.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/17/3
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0409

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