On 01/19/2012 09:45 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote:
2012/1/19 Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org>:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana <divan@s-tainment.co.za> wrote:
Hi All,
As per http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NTA
There is a quite a serious security problem.
Is there a patch coming out soon? Does anyone yet know a workaround to this in the meanwhile? Can it be announced?
Have you verified that your system?
On my system none of the keys mentioned in that article have the reported results; they all jumps out to virtual terminals. I have not made any changes to the stock Arch config that would affect those keys.
Use the Ctrl + Alt + * from the keypad to trigger the "bug".
As explained in the article, this is purely Xorg related. Use vlock for example if you want to avoid the problem.
This has been fixed in xkeyboard-config 2.4.1-3 in testing. You have to reset your xkb map or restart X after updating. The feature is still enabled in xorg-server so if anyone wants to use it, just create the necessary key mappings. -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net