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Re: Is _your_ Netscape under remote control

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (der Mouse)
Mon Jun 3 04:19:17 1996

Date:         Tue, 28 May 1996 19:18:16 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>

> 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@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

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