ports/118694: vty change causes xorg mousebuffer paste
J.R. Oldroyd
fbsd at opal.com
Fri Dec 14 15:40:02 UTC 2007
>Number: 118694
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: vty change causes xorg mousebuffer paste
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Dec 14 15:40:01 UTC 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: J.R. Oldroyd
>Release: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD linwhf.opal.com 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #3: Mon Dec 10 17:12:34 EST 2007 xx at yy:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LINWHF i386
>Description:
When changing vtys using Ctrl-Atl-F1 then back to xorg using
Ctrl-Alt-F9, whatever text was most recently selected in the
mousebuffer is pasted back on the return to the xorg vty.
This is dangerous (and a potential security threat) as a command
could be executed when it is not expected.
System:
FreeBSD-7.0BETA4
xorg-7.3_1
>How-To-Repeat:
start xorg
open an xterm window
use LEFT mouse button to select some text
type Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to console vty
type Ctrl-Alt-F9 to switch back to xorg
observe that the previously selected text is now pasted
>Fix:
This error and a patch have been posted to the xorg bugs system. Please
add the patch to the FreeBSD port.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13144
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