Pressing screenshot keyboard shortcut while assigning screenshot keyboard shortcut to itself causes a recursive loop and the whole computer to crash.
Bug #1587255 reported by
Jacob Killelea
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| unity-control-center (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
In system settings > keyboard > shortcuts > screenshots, trying to assign "Take a screenshot" to the active screenshot keyboard shortcut (on my machine, a new model XPS-13, fn+PrtScr) causes a loop of hundreds of screenshots before the system crashes.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unity-control-
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-040400-
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon May 30 23:25:53 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-24 (158 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151209)
SourcePackage: unity-control-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Revision history for this message
| Jacob Killelea (jkillelea344) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote Bug is not a security issue | #2 |
| information type: | Private Security → Public |
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Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.