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

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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

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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

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`1.4-2`
fedora	24	affected
fedora	25	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`41-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`41-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`41-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`41-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`41-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
suckless	slock	`{"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.