Bug 142676 – Possible bittorrent or gtk security exploit (I am not sure which but it is one of these)

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description michael huss 2006-08-03 10:15:20 UTC]

I beleive my system's security was comprimised by bittorrent. I entered a root shell to install it, then ran it (without logging off root :-( ) and it looked fine at first. Then I entered search terms in the search box on bittorrent and my whole X screen went grey, and my kayboard stopped working. (my mouse was visible) I could hear the computer still working so I cut the power. When it came back on, it corrected filesystem errors automatically. I unmerged bittorrent, started X, and ran Gaim. If there was any doubt my security was comprimised, it ends here: Gaim will no longer talk to anyone! I type and I type, no response, not even from irc bots. BTW. Please forgive any errors in this message, this is my first bugzilla post.

[Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) 2006-08-03 10:33:52 UTC]

Sounds like you need to run a memtest and a fsck to me.

[Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2006-08-08 16:17:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I beleive my system's security was comprimised by bittorrent. I entered a root
> shell to install it, then ran it (without logging off root :-( ) and it looked
> fine at first. Then I entered search terms in the search box on bittorrent and
> my whole X screen went grey, and my kayboard stopped working. (my mouse was
> visible) I could hear the computer still working so I cut the power. When it

Quite possibly just a memory leak somewhere or an X server crash. As for gaim not working, tried merging a newer version of gaim?

[Comment 3 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) 2006-09-08 05:49:28 UTC]

Michael, any news on this? otherwise we'll close that bug

[Comment 4 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) 2006-11-24 12:35:25 UTC]

closed NEEDINFO