ZDNet
The Linux Mint project has patched this week a security flaw that could have allowed a threat actor to bypass the OS screensaver and its password and access locked desktops.
This particularly nasty security flaw was discovered by two kids playing on their dad’s computer, according to a bug report on GitHub.
A few weeks ago, my kids wanted to hack my Linux desktop, so they typed and clicked everywhere while I was standing behind them looking at them play, wrote a user identifying themselves as robo2bobo.
According to the bug report, the two kids pressed random keys on both the physical and on-screen keyboards, which eventually led to a crash of the Linux Mint screensaver, allowing the two access to the desktop.
I thought it was a unique incident, but they managed to do it a second time, the user added.