On 01/19/2012 09:45 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote: > 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. > 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
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