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It would be interesting to see which distros are and are not affected. If Fedora 16 is unaffected, I'm going to disagree with your assertion that "most new distros are". Debian stable is unaffected, for example, so the production Debian builds aren't vulnerable.



For fedora 16 there is a fix available here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-0064


  yum update xkeyboard-config
with the Fedora repos enabled fixes the issue now (the fixed in version is xkeyboard-config-2.3-3.fc16.noarch).


Confirmed with Debian Wheezy (testing). Dell Latitude E6520 has a numpad so screen lock was defeated with simply "Ctrl+Alt+*". :-(


Confirmed on Debian Testing


Confirming that Fedora 16 is affected, with the latest updates as of the time of this writing.




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