[arch-general] security problem in X with screen saver

[Magnus Therning]

2012/1/19 Timothée Ravier <timothee.romain.ravier at gmail.com>:
> 2012/1/19 Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>:
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana <divan at 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.

Yes indeed, that works.  What the hell was that other article doing
mentioning all those Fn-keys then?

/M

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