Re:Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress
by Ubersoldat on Thursday January 19, 2012 @11:31AM
(#3485163)
Doesn't work in Ubuntu Maverick with X.Org 1.7.5
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Re:Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress
by jgeralnik on Thursday January 19, 2012 @12:04PM
(#3485346)
If you look at the linked post, the vulnerability was introduced in 1.10.99.902, any earlier versions of X.Org are not affected.
Re:Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress
by machrider on Thursday January 19, 2012 @12:26PM
(#3485482)
In other words, terrible headline on this post. I imagine Arch and Gentoo are the most likely to be affected, as they tend to run bleeding edge projects. Most Linux users are unaffected.
Re:Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress
by gnosis on Thursday January 19, 2012 @03:43PM
(#3486595)
My machine runs Gentoo and it's not affected -- because it runs an older version of Xorg.
Just because the bleeding edge version of Xorg is available on Gentoo doesn't mean you're forced to use it. You can always decide not to upgrade and stay with an old version of anything.
On the other hand, if you stay with old versions too long, things might break when you finally do try to upgrade.