Bug#416824: klaptopdaemon: lock & hibernate allowing unauthorised access
Hi KDE users,
anyone has experiment something like this:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:02PM +0100, Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
> Package: klaptopdaemon
> Version: 4:3.5.5-3
> Severity: grave
> Tags: security
> Justification: user security hole
>
> Hi, I'm using Etch RC2 and I use klaptopdaemon to lock and hibernate my
> laptop when I noticed an interesting little bug. I access lock and
> hibernate by right-clicking on the system tray icon and clicking on the
> option there.
>
> Depending on the load on the system, klaptopdaemon appears to be
> allowing somone unhibernating a locked & hibernated system, brief access
> to the desktop.
>
> The first time that I noticed this I was able to start accessing a
> previously opened terminal and got 'ls -la' into the terminal, and to
> get the directory listing, before the screenlock was brought up.
>
> I have tried to replicate this and catch it on my phone camera, although
> I have been unable to replicate the system load of the first time I
> caught it. However, I attach move00064.3gp which is video of me
> trying to replicate this, and you can see that just after coming out of
> hibernate and once the X scree is brough back up, you can see a flash of
> my desktop. When I first noticed this bug, I believe my system was
> under considerable load and I was able to interfere with the desktop at
> my leisure, until the screenlock was brought up.
>
> As a recollection, Windows NT 3.xx had a bug like this in the distant
> past, and that knowlege brought me to notice this flaw.
>
> I will do further experiments with system load and other factors to see
> if I can get access to desktop for a prolonged period of time again. If
> I was able to get up a terminal, and it was root logged on, presumably I
> could kill off the process that would launch the screenlock before it
> had a chance and have my wicked way with the desktop?
>
> FYI I'm using an IBM Thinkpad X40.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
> Versions of packages klaptopdaemon depends on:
> ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 core libraries and binaries for al
> ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
> ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
> ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii libxtst6 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
>
> klaptopdaemon recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
You can read the full bug report (and download the video) from
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416824
Thanks,
Ana
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