urxvt synthetic events - security hole?

Ben Price ben.r.price at btinternet.com
Wed Jul 14 21:20:45 CEST 2010


Hello list,

It appears that urxvt accepts synthetic events, (in the latest
version). For instance sent by xsendkey. This seems to be a large security
hole IMHO. Note `man xterm` explicitly says that xterm won't accept them.

Is this a bug?

TIA,
Ben





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