Ubuntu bug 1308572

Eric Mill eric at konklone.com
Tue Apr 29 10:35:54 PDT 2014


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu bug 1308572
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1308572
>
> -----
> 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.

Fortunately, the final comment says:

"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."


>
> --
> 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
> -----
>



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