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CVE-2016-6866 (GCVE-0-2016-6866)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-15 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:43
VLAI
Summary
slock allows attackers to bypass the screen lock via vectors involving an invalid password hash, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference and crash.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2016-08-18 00:00
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