Control: tag -1 moreinfo On ven., 2012-12-28 at 10:09 -0800, Mar Mel wrote: > Showing the contents of the desktop/windows on a system that is supposed to be > locked is a serious security issue. > > I am surprised to find this behavior in the current xscreensaver and more > surprised to see this listed as a "minor" severity bug here on Debian. > > This same problematic behavior occurred a few years ago with Ubuntu and > gnome-screensaver. It was fixed shortly thereafter. > > Ubuntu took the problem very seriously and the bug in Launchpad was listed as > "critical": > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/390989 > > Upstream gnome also assigned the bug a severity of "critical": > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654746 > > I hope this can be addressed in the current Debian Wheezy with Xfce4.
Since nobody took care to answer my question, I guess no. Unless you can reproduce this and can actually provide the information I asked, please refrain from messing with bug reports from other people, it just makes noise. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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