[Secure-testing-team] Bug#814355: plasma-workspace: CVE-2016-2312: KDE lockscreen bypass by switching display off and on

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: plasma-workspace
Version: 4:5.4.3-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream patch
Justification: user security hole
Forwarded: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358125

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for plasma-workspace.

CVE-2016-2312[0]:
KDE lockscreen bypass by switching display off and on

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2312
[1] https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160209-1.txt
[2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358125
[3] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964548

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore