2012/1/19 Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana <divan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Tim
