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CVE-2015-7496 (GCVE-0-2015-7496)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-24 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:51
VLAI
Summary
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-11-17 00:00
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