Unity Gestures: Gestures work on lock screen

Bug #1306973 reported by Alfred E. Neumayer
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
High
Alfred E. Neumayer
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Unity Gestures can be invoked while the lock screen is shown.
This is a security problem, as it allows to peek inside the running applications and show windows using a 3 finger gesture, while on the lock screen.
A screenshot for this is attatched.

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Alfred E. Neumayer (beidl) wrote :
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Alfred E. Neumayer (beidl) wrote :

Pushed a new branch to fix those issues: lp:~beidl/unity/unity-gestures-lockscreen

Note that the last commit message is a little misleading and it actually,
after testing, shows that also 3 finger gestures stop working now.

Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Critical
importance: Critical → High
information type: Private Security → Public Security
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Alfred E. Neumayer (beidl) wrote :

Removed the old branch (after 24 hours it still said 'Branch not scanned yet' and I couldn't pull from it)
and pushed to new one: lp:~beidl/unity/unity-lockscreen-gestures

Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Alfred Neumayer (beidl)
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 7.2.1
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
importance: Undecided → High
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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