VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2312

medium
Published 2016-12-23 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Turning all screens off in Plasma-workspace and kscreenlocker while the lock screen is shown can result in the screen being unlocked when turning a screen on again.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
67%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
23 Affected —
22 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4:5.4.3-2
sid Fixed 4:5.4.3-2
forky Fixed 4:5.4.3-2
bullseye Fixed 4:5.4.3-2
bookworm Fixed 4:5.4.3-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
kdekscreenlocker{"endIncluding":"5.5.4"}
kdeplasma-workspace{"endIncluding":"5.4.3"}

References

CWEs

CWE-254

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.