Bug#546018: gnome-terminal: Pressing keyboard keys alters cursor blinking

2009-09-10 Thread Emmanuel Colbus
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 2.22.3-3 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole After any key is pressed (even Alt, Ctrl or Caps), gnome-terminal resets its blinking cursor's "next color-switch time" to "now + one full color-switching period". This (partially) defeats t

Bug#309014: Unprivileged users may crash atd

2005-05-13 Thread Emmanuel Colbus
Package: at Version: 3.1.8-11 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Typing 4-6 times the command : $ while true; do echo "kill -9 0" | at now; done >/dev/null 2>/dev/null& may cause atd to crash, possibly only on SMP computers. Some more details : I found the bug accidenta