CVE-2016-6866 describes a high-severity vulnerability in slock, affecting Fedora and Suckless slock, where an attacker can bypass the screen lock. This is achieved by providing an invalid password hash, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and a denial of service (crash). The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity and high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:suckless:slock:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.