CVE-2004-2655 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-2655
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Description: rdesktop 1.3.1 with xscreensaver 4.14, and possibly other versions, when running on Fedora and possibly other platforms, does not release the keyboard focus when xscreensaver starts, which causes the password to be entered into the active window when the user unlocks the screen.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-269-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_23_sr.html ST 1016150 1016151 SGI SAID Secunia Advisory: SA20226 Secunia Advisory: SA20456 Secunia Advisory: SA20782 Secunia Advisory: SA22080 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0498.html MISC http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.security/2004-08/0018.html MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:071 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-107.htm http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html BID 17471

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