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GNOME Developers Fix Famous Cat-Related Lock Screen Bypass Issue in GDM

The GDM (GNOME Display Manager) package has just been updated on November 17, 2015, with a patch for a crash that occurred when holding the Escape (ESC) key while in lock screen, which would have allowed anyone to bypass the security of the lock screen and access the desktop environment.

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