[kdepim-users] keystrokes being echoed

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Mittwoch, 16. September 2015, 21:15:31 CEST schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Am Sonntag, 16. August 2015, 23:35:17 CEST schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > On Saturday 15 August 2015 09:01:40 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> > > Hi,
> 
> Hello Ingo,
> 
> > > I'm running KDE PIM 4.13.3 but just updated my KDE libs to 4.14.11
> > > (git/head). Moments ago kontact crashed on me (hopefully unrelated),
> > > and now I'm getting an echo (on the calling terminal) of the (ascii)
> > > code of every key I hit in text/message body frames but also in the
> > > subject line. Quite annoying.
> > 
> > I'm seeing this in KMail resp., more specifically, in KMail's new mail
> > composer. It's indeed pretty annoying.
> 
> It is not just annoying. Its a security / privacy hole.
> 
> > > Is this a debugging feature in KDE PIM that I somehow triggered, or
> > > should I file a kdelibs bug report?
> > 
> > My guess is that someone added a corresponding debug statement to KMail
> > to track down some bug and then forgot to remove it again before pushing
> > the fix. I suggest filing a bug for KMail, but it's possible that it
> > will be closed immediately because it has already been fixed for the
> > next version KMail/Kontact (which will be based on Qt5/KF5).
> 
> This is also in Konqueror and actually it is a security hole as it basically
> implements a local keylogger. Anything with access to ~/.xsession-errors
> can grab everything typed within KMail an Konqueror.
> 
> Bug#799186: konqueror: now comes with built-in keylogger
> http://bugs.debian.org/799186
> 
> I will report it upstream until Thorsten beats me to it.

Sorry, did not read the last mail of the thread that it is fixed in newer 
kdelibs version. I forwarded that information to the Debian bug report as I 
think Konqueror 15.04 is still Qt4/KDE4  based.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin
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