Bug#834367: systemctl daemon-reexec (as run on systemd upgrade) causes all keystrokes to go to text console in addition to X (including passwords)

Vincent Bernat bernat at debian.org
Mon Aug 15 18:58:09 BST 2016


 ❦ 15 août 2016 00:53 CEST, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> :

> [Severity and tag due to the likely possibility of exposing user
> passwords this way.  If this occurs with the version in jessie as well,
> it'll require a security update.]

I think this is fairly recent. I stumbled upon your bug report while
searching why Alt + "left arrow" switched to another VT. It started to
happen to me today. Therefore, I think this only happens with 231-2 but
not with 231-1 (assuming this is the same cause).
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