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

2012-01-19 Thread Christian Hesse
Florian Pritz on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:44:18 +0100: > On 01/19/2012 09:45 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote: > > 2012/1/19 Magnus Therning : > >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana > >> wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> As per http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NTA > >>> > >>>

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

2012-01-19 Thread Florian Pritz
On 01/19/2012 09:45 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote: > 2012/1/19 Magnus Therning : >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana 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 co

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

2012-01-19 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On 01/19/12 at 09:57am, Magnus Therning wrote: > > Yes indeed, that works. What the hell was that other article doing > mentioning all those Fn-keys then? > > -- > Magnus Therning                      OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 Just confirming that it works. I hope arch adds the patch to the repos so

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

2012-01-19 Thread Maciej Sitarz
Hi, a quick fix I developed for my Fedora 16 box: 1. Dump the xkb: $ xkbcomp $DISPLAY xkb.dump 2. Make a backup $ cp xkb.dump xkb.dump_orig 3. Remove all entries related to XF86ClearGrab and XF86Ungrab 4. Apply the XKB entries: $ xkbcomp xkb.dump $DISPLAY In case of any problems restore the origi

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

2012-01-19 Thread Magnus Therning
2012/1/19 Timothée Ravier : > 2012/1/19 Magnus Therning : >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana 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? >>>

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

2012-01-19 Thread Timothée Ravier
2012/1/19 Magnus Therning : > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana 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 th

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

2012-01-19 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana 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 annou