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Gentoo: GLSA-200409-10 Normal: Multi-Gnome-Terminal Keystroke Logging

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Calendar Grey September 6, 2004
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Active input monitoring detected in multi-gnome-console; update required to safeguard confidential information.
Active keystroke logging in multi-gnome-terminal has been discovered in potentially world-readable files

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: multi-gnome-terminal: Information leak Date: September 06, 2004 Bugs: #62322 ID: 200409-10

Synopsis ======= Active keystroke logging in multi-gnome-terminal has been discovered in potentially world-readable files. This could allow any authorized user on the system to read sensitive data, including passwords.
Background ========= multi-gnome-terminal is an enhanced terminal emulator that is derived from gnome-terminal.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-terms/multi-gnome-terminal < 1.6.2-r1 >= 1.6.2-r1
========== multi-gnome-terminal contains debugging c...

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