CVE-2016-6866 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2016-6866?

CVE-2016-6866 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 15 Feb 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

slock allows attackers to bypass the screen lock via vectors involving an invalid password hash, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference and crash.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6866?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Suckless Slock.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6866?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-6866 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6866 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6866, DLA-598-1, GHSA-h53p-2gg5-7vfm, MGASA-2016-0308, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6866.