VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6866

high
Published 2017-02-15 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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
25 Affected —
24 Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 1.4-2
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 41-1
sid Fixed 41-1
forky Fixed 41-1
bullseye Fixed 41-1
bookworm Fixed 41-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sucklessslock{"endIncluding":"1.3"}

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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

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