{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-0887 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2008-0887 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Apr 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2008-0887 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-0887 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Apr 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-0887 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-0887/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-0887/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-0887","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-0887/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-0887","record":{"aliases":["CVE-2008-1683","DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0887","GHSA-x3jq-r6gp-49qf","RHSA-2008:0197","RHSA-2008:0218"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux screensaver","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A denial of service in gnome-screensaver allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen during network outages if remote authentication is 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