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Bugtraq: Re: Is _your_ Netscape under remote control

Re: Is _your_ Netscape under remote control

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 19:18:16 -0400

> I have seen X servers that neglect to mark events as synthetic if you
> do an XSendEvent w/o setting the synthetic field to be true.

That's a pretty crippling security bug. Which server(s)? I want to
stay as far away from them as possible - not only are they grossly
insecure, but who knows what else they got wrong.

                                        der Mouse

                            mouse_at_collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Received on Jun 03 1996

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