Control: tags 980061 + pending Dear maintainer,
As this is older than 7 days and no maintainer activity about this bug and it cause security issue to cinnamon (that I think should be solved ASAP); I've prepared an NMU for caribou (versioned as 0.4.21-7.1) and will be uploaded. Regards. diff -Nru caribou-0.4.21/debian/changelog caribou-0.4.21/debian/changelog --- caribou-0.4.21/debian/changelog 2018-12-24 00:18:21.000000000 +0100 +++ caribou-0.4.21/debian/changelog 2021-01-15 15:49:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +caribou (0.4.21-7.1) unstable; urgency=high + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix segfault (regression of xorg CVE-2020-25712 fix) that + cause security issue for cinnamon (Closes: #980061) + + -- Fabio Fantoni <fantonifa...@tiscali.it> Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:49:43 +0100 + caribou (0.4.21-7) unstable; urgency=medium * Restore -Wl,-O1 to our LDFLAGS diff -Nru caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/Fix-compilation-error.patch caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/Fix-compilation-error.patch --- caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/Fix-compilation-error.patch 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/Fix-compilation-error.patch 2021-01-15 15:49:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +From bc6f3e7ca0921b50a3ff836d08ce264a4f114224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Clement Lefebvre <clement.lefeb...@linuxmint.com> +Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:29:16 +0000 +Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Fix compilation error + +--- + libcaribou/key-model.vala | 2 +- + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) + +diff --git a/libcaribou/key-model.vala b/libcaribou/key-model.vala +index 89015bc..e88342e 100644 +--- a/libcaribou/key-model.vala ++++ b/libcaribou/key-model.vala +@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ namespace Caribou { + unichar uc; + while (text.get_next_char (ref index, out uc)) { + uint keyval = Gdk.unicode_to_keyval (uc); +- if (keyval != uc | 0x01000000) ++ if (keyval != (uc | 0x01000000)) + _keyvals += keyval; + } + } else { +-- +2.29.2 diff -Nru caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/Fix-subkey-popmenu-not-showing-after-being-dismissed.patch caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/Fix-subkey-popmenu-not-showing-after-being-dismissed.patch --- caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/Fix-subkey-popmenu-not-showing-after-being-dismissed.patch 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/Fix-subkey-popmenu-not-showing-after-being-dismissed.patch 2021-01-15 15:49:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +From 85ac8f9e210243d95163cf8b1013470a6d9c7eaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Clement Lefebvre <clement.lefeb...@linuxmint.com> +Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:30:25 +0000 +Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Fix subkey popmenu not showing after being dismissed + +To reproduce the issue: + +- long-press the "e" button +- don't select any sub button.. just select "e" again to close the menu + +After this the menu no long appears when long-pressing "e". + +This commit fixes that. +--- + libcaribou/key-model.vala | 1 + + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) + +diff --git a/libcaribou/key-model.vala b/libcaribou/key-model.vala +index e88342e..2f640f2 100644 +--- a/libcaribou/key-model.vala ++++ b/libcaribou/key-model.vala +@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ namespace Caribou { + hold_tid = GLib.Timeout.add (1000, on_key_held); + + key_pressed(this); ++ show_subkeys = false; + } + + public void release () { +-- +2.29.2 diff -Nru caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/series caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/series --- caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/series 2018-12-24 00:18:21.000000000 +0100 +++ caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/series 2021-01-15 15:49:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,2 +1,5 @@ autostart-set-nodisplay.patch fix-font-property-in-style.css.patch +Fix-compilation-error.patch +Fix-subkey-popmenu-not-showing-after-being-dismissed.patch +xadapter.vala-Remove-XkbKeyTypesMask-and-f.patch diff -Nru caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/xadapter.vala-Remove-XkbKeyTypesMask-and-f.patch caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/xadapter.vala-Remove-XkbKeyTypesMask-and-f.patch --- caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/xadapter.vala-Remove-XkbKeyTypesMask-and-f.patch 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ caribou-0.4.21/debian/patches/xadapter.vala-Remove-XkbKeyTypesMask-and-f.patch 2021-01-15 15:49:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +From 00653c5dcc4be5e983b670d00d5724fc21da2e82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Clement Lefebvre <clement.lefeb...@linuxmint.com> +Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:01:47 +0000 +Subject: [PATCH 3/4] [mtwebster] xadapter.vala: Remove XkbKeyTypesMask and + fields from XKbChangeMap call. +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit + +This was originally a workaround for xFree86 4.3 - see: +https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673547 + +As of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/87c64fc5b0 this +causes a BadLength error when attempting to use shifted characters. + +Ref: +https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/XKB/xkblib.html#Changing_Map_Components_in_the_Server +--- + libcaribou/xadapter.vala | 9 ++------- + 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) + +diff --git a/libcaribou/xadapter.vala b/libcaribou/xadapter.vala +index 22858b7..1da5a78 100644 +--- a/libcaribou/xadapter.vala ++++ b/libcaribou/xadapter.vala +@@ -195,15 +195,10 @@ namespace Caribou { + + Xkb.MapChanges changes = Xkb.MapChanges (); + +- // We don't touch key types here but include the +- // information in XkbSetMap request to the server, because +- // some X servers need the information to check the sanity +- // of the keysyms change. +- changes.changed = (ushort) (Xkb.KeySymsMask | Xkb.KeyTypesMask); ++ changes.changed = (ushort) Xkb.KeySymsMask; + changes.first_key_sym = (char) this.reserved_keycode; + changes.num_key_syms = this.xkbdesc.map.key_sym_map[this.reserved_keycode].width; +- changes.first_type = 0; +- changes.num_types = this.xkbdesc.map.num_types; ++ + Xkb.change_map (this.xdisplay, this.xkbdesc, changes); + + this.xdisplay.flush (); +-- +2.29.2 +