CVE-2012-0064 (GCVE-0-2012-0064)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-02-10 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:16
VLAI
Summary
xkeyboard-config before 2.5 in X.Org before 7.6 enables certain XKB debugging functions by default, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an X screen lock via keyboard combinations that break the input grab.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-01-18 00:00
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