gnome-shell — security advisory
GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests and leveraging a temporary lock outage, and the resulting temporary shell availability, caused by the Linux kernel OOM killer.
- Products
- gnome-shell
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.14.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2014-7300
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 21:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests and leveraging a temporary lock outage, and the resulting temporary shell availability, caused by the Linux kernel OOM killer.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7300
gnome-shell
Fixed versions: 3.14.1-1
gnome-shell
Fixed versions: 3.14.1-1
gnome-shell
Fixed versions: 3.14.1-1
Complete source record
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