[SecurityRoadmap] Desktop is exposed from under screen lock after an Update Manager popup

Bug #385102 reported by Mikhail Zabaluev
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Release: 9.04

gnome-screensaver 2.24.0-0ubuntu6
gdm 2.20.10-0ubuntu2
metacity 1:2.25.144-0ubuntu2.1
nvidia-glx-180 180.44-0ubuntu1

If my screen is locked, and an Update Manager popup window appears that informs about available critical updates, the desktop contents become visible for a few moments when I touch the mouse to light up the screen and show the login prompt.

Tags: privacy
visibility: private → public
Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Jussson (thekabbageman) wrote :

In my case it's more than a few moments. For the last few releases my screen saver hasn't gone to the login prompt on a mouse move, only on a click; I thought this was intentional because there's no setting for it in System > Prefs > Screensaver. So the desktop is visible as long as I don't click.

Jaunty, with the default packages.

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Mikhail Zabaluev (mzabaluev) wrote :

This does not seem to be reproducible any more, after some Jaunty updates.

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Mikhail Zabaluev (mzabaluev) wrote :

> This does not seem to be reproducible any more, after some Jaunty updates.

I was too quick to pronounce that, the bug is still there.

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Ville Ranki (ville-ranki) wrote :

This happened to me today, so it's not fixed yet.

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dovik (dovik-martin) wrote :

I'm also concerned by this bug on a Dell OptiPlex GX520 with intel integrated graphics GMA 950 and Compiz and every packages up to date.

(And it's very annoying when you were working on a sheet of ultra secrets passwords before locked-in your screen)

Steps to reproduce :
1) Screen lock by : Ctrl + Alt + L
2) Wait for Update manager load (the screen is always locked)
3) Desktop appears (not a new kind of Pokémon)
4) Mouse or keyboard interaction : screen locked again

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

Can you still reproduce this issue with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick)?

Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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NeilGreenwood (neil-greenwood) wrote :

Yes, I saw this about a month ago.

Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Jacob B (j-bottelberghe) wrote :

I haven't experienced this using after upgrading to 10.04.1

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

@NeilGreenwood: on what version of Ubuntu?

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NeilGreenwood (neil-greenwood) wrote :

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10, upgraded from 10.04.

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Sarunas (sarunas-saulis) wrote :

Just happened to me today. Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS 64.

summary: - Desktop is exposed from under screen lock after an Update Manager popup
+ [SecurityRoadmap] Desktop is exposed from under screen lock after an
+ Update Manager popup
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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote :

Setting as "fix released" since this was forked to mate-screensaver where this is no longer an issue and development on gnome-screensaver 2.0 has ceased.

Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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