CVE-2016-2312

Publication date 23 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
plasma-workspace	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Fixed 4:5.4.2-0ubuntu1.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

seth-arnold

the xenial plasma-workspace package is very different; I suspect it's not-affected but I can't say that definitively nor state where the affected code might live in xenial.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.8 · Medium
Attack vector	Physical
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H