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CVE-2016-2312

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

Description

Turning all screens off in Plasma-workspace and kscreenlocker while the lock screen is shown can result in the screen being unlocked when turning a screen on again.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
• KDE Kscreenlocker: through 5.5.4
• KDE Plasma Workspace: through 5.4.3
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177454.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177557.html
• https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358125
• https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964548
• https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160209-1.txt
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177454.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177557.html
• https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358125
• https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964548
• https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160209-1.txt

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