Re: New DoS via SAK?
Kurt Garloff (garloff@kg1.ping.de)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:52:39 +0100
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:42:35PM -0500, Alex Buell wrote:
>
> Then I tried using the mouse, thinking perhaps I could restart the X11
> server session. At this point, I noticed it was bringing up the SAK menu
> in X11 (Never seen that before but that was cool!) I eventually killed the
> X11 server and restarted it. All was back to normal after that, although
> it must be stressed nothing was broken apart from the fscked up X11 server
> and buggered xterm sessions. I'm only concerned that it could be used for
> more nefarious things.
>
> I really think that triggering the SAK should send something to the system
> logs so that one can trace back the events that led up to this.
You don't have xhost+ somewhere in your X setup, do you?
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