Etherape takes too long to close, Hardy beta

[Michael James]

Binary package hint: etherape

I opened Etherape, as root, to see whats going on on my network. When I hit the X to close it, there is enough time for the little notification about force quit and wait to come up. This is a bit of a pain, not too big. This only occurs when Etherape sees things on the network; for me about 20 different things. I am on wireless if that makes a difference. I am not sure if malicious code could be inserted during this time. I think this because it is running as root, and over a network. I'm marking this as a security vulnerability, just to be safe.

[Michael James (mbj1103)]

GNOME EtherApe 0.9.7
Hardy Beta.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Thanks for the report! Unless there is some other source of vulnerability, nothing about the time the GUI is stalled should inherently make an application vulnerable. I'm unmarking this as a security update.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you reproduce this bug with a newer Ubuntu version? Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for etherape (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]