There may also exist a security issue, where user alice creates
specially crafted keymaps in /tmp/$HASH.xkm and then user bob launched X
and the X system tries to re-use alice's evil keymap.
I'm unsure if the X server keymap loader is exploitable, but it is
likely that keymaps should not be shared
There is a second issue with the failing rename operation that this bug
report is referring to:
The target file $TMPDIR/server-
B20D7FC79C7F597315E3E501AEF10E0D866E8E92.xkm is apparently shared
between servers and never gets deleted. So you cannot start multiple X
servers as different users, beca
** Tags added: precise
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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This appears to be caused by an Ubuntu-specific patch which we borrowed
from Moblin.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/972324
Title:
server fails to start up if TMPDIR is set
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