[PLUG] Security Vulnerability in Xorg Screen Locking

Daniel Hedlund daniel at digitree.org
Thu Jan 19 17:06:22 UTC 2012


Came across the a link on Hacker News a few minutes ago that talks about a
bug in Xorg that allows anyone to bypass a locked screen using
<CTRL>+<ALT>+*.  Most people are apparently vulnerable:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/200

Using <SHIFT>+8 to access * doesn't work, but using numlock or a keypad
does.



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