Re: CVE Request: IBUS showing passwords during password input

[Fuminobu TAKEYAMA <ftake () geeko jp>]

Hello,

> The behaviour started (I think) with with IBUS 1.5.4
Yes. It happens on IBus-enabled GNOME 3.6+ with IBus 1.5.4 if IBus's
engines (plug-ins) do not support new API introduced by 1.5.4.

Actually, this problem is not found by me, though.
The upstream has already announced in [1].

An IBus developer (Mr. Fuijiwara) says in [1]:
"1.5.2 or lower do not handle the input purpose so the typed chars are
shown as the bug."
So I think the same problem may happen also on GNOME 3.6 + IBus 1.5.2.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ibus-user/mvCHDO1BJUw

Best regards,
Fuminobu TAKEYAMA

2013/11/4 Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de>:
> Hi,
>
> One of our Japanese users found that some IBUS input methods
> show passwords while typing them, if a special "intent" is not
> provided.
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847718
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ibus-user/mvCHDO1BJUw
>
> The behaviour started (I think) with with IBUS 1.5.4
>
> Fuminobu Takeyama, is this correct?
>
> Ciao, Marcus