Bug#980061: caribou: Segfault as regression of xorg CVE-2020-25712 fix that cause security issue for cinnamon

Fabio Fantoni fantonifabio at tiscali.it
Wed Jan 13 18:41:59 GMT 2021


Source: caribou
Version: 0.4.21-7
Severity: grave
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/caribou/-/merge_requests/3

Hi, after xorg CVE-2020-25712 fix a regression is intruduced that make
possible crash caribou and add a security issue for cinnamon that use it
as virtual keyboard in screensaver:
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354

Cinnamon developers already prepared, tested and open a MR on caribou
upstream for solves this issue (link in forwarded)



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