Just a sidenote: Unlike what the sensationalist article at heise.de from today suggests (which links here), this bug was fixed in a heroc effort over night *before* final release, the fix is on the 14.04 image that was released to end users.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308572 Title: Ubuntu 14.04: security problem in the lock screen Status in Unity: Fix Released Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: affects ubuntu Hello, I am running Ubuntu 14.04 with all the packages updated. When the screen is locked with password, if I hold ENTER after some seconds the screen freezes and the lock screen crashes. After that I have the computer fully unlocked. -- Marco Agnese This bug is about the lockscreen being bypassed when unity crashes/restarts, which is a critcal security issue. The crash will be handled from bug 1308750 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1308572/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
