urxvt synthetic events - security hole?

Marc Lehmann schmorp at schmorp.de
Thu Jul 15 02:09:23 CEST 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:20:45PM +0100, Ben Price <ben.r.price at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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

Sorry to say so, but your _opinion_ is of zero relevance regarding
security questions. Accepting synthetic events is, of course, not a
security hole.

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