From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, vojtech@suse.de
Subject: Re: Breakage from patch: Only root should be able to set the N_MOUSE line discipline.
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:57:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109692629.15797.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050301114718.GA5375@ucw.cz>
On Maw, 2005-03-01 at 11:47, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> A nonprivileged user could inject mouse movement and/or keystrokes
> (using the sunkbd driver) into the input subsystem, taking over the
> console/X, where another user is logged in.
Ouch. Ok that explains much.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-01 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200502030209.j1329xTG013818@hera.kernel.org>
2005-02-26 11:20 ` Breakage from patch: Only root should be able to set the N_MOUSE line discipline Alan Cox
2005-03-01 11:47 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-03-01 15:57 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-03-01 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-01 16:33 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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