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

[Timothée Ravier]

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.

Tim