Florian Pritz <bluewind@xxxxxxx> on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:44:18 +0100: > 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 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. This fixes the problem for me. Everything seems to be fine now. I vote for xkeyboard-config to be moved to [extra] asap. Thanks for the fast fix! -- Best regards, Chris O< ascii ribbon campaign stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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