[Blackpool] Fwd: [RossLUG] Xorg 1.11 bug

[Peter Greenwood]

On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 15:38 +0000, Les Pounder wrote:
> Lads, try this on your machines, see if you are affected.

> in short it allows you to press ctrl-alt-* (the * on the numpad) and
> disable the screensaver and return to the desktop without the need for
> entering a password.

Fedora 16 with KDE is vulnerable. My Ubuntu netbook isn't (as far as I
can tell) but that may be just that it doesn't have a keypad - might try
it with a USB keyboard at some point.


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Peter Greenwood  peterg at pgid.co.uk