vinagre session - "shares" memory when doing copy/paste
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gtk-vnc (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: vinagre
I found this by accident while remotely *viewing* a desktop session.
I discovered that whenever I copy something (text mode) in memory (ie press CTRL+C) and the remote desktop viewer just happens to be doing a paste operation (ie CTRL+V in text mode) the remote user will instead paste whatever is in MY memory. If I do the pasting, and the remote user just did a copy command, I will get his copy of text instead.
This happened using 64-bit Intrepid machines, remote desktop user was copying text from a browser into oowriter while I'm copying text from a gedit session.
I assumed that while I'm on a "view only" session of Vinagre, I don't interact in any way with the remote desktop except to see what's on their screen. I believe that this is a security issue, or at least concerns privacy.
Ubuntu: 64-bit Intrepid 8.10
Vinagre: 2.24.1-0ubuntu1.1
| Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in vinagre: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gtk-vnc (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This issue was fixed in gtk-vnc upstream:
http://