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Olivia von Westernhagen Four wildly typing, mouse-clicking children’s hands managed to bypass the Linux Mint screen saver lock last month. The “Screensaver lock by-pass”, which was discovered by two small “hackers” by chance and which crashed the screensaver process, has now been fixed.

On-screen keyboard crashed operating system The bypassing of the lock screen succeeded twice – but only for the two children of a Mint -Users who could not reproduce the scenario themselves and were therefore initially only able to describe it very vaguely in a bug report on GitHub.

The developer community took on the topic and was able to identify the underlying Eventually identify errors. It was in the on-screen keyboard ( libcaribou ) of the Cinnamon desktop environment. To trigger the screensaver crash, only a single letter was needed: Simply entering “ē” on the screen keyboard, depending on the Cinnamon version, crashed not only the screensaver, but the entire desktop environment.

Patches are now available for Mint 19. x, Mint 20. x and the Debian-Edition LMDE 4 available.

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