Subject: bug#18939: 24.4; middle-click sometimes pastes data other than the PRIMARY selection

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:17:32 -0500

Riku Saikkonen wrote:

> PS. I found out about this bug because Debian currently considers it to
>     be a release-critical bug; see <http://bugs.debian.org/774090>.

FWIW, that severity was self-assigned by the OP.

For those who care about such things, this has apparently has a
(placeholder?) CVE number (CVE-2014-9483) now. (It might have been nice
if these developments had been mentioned here.)

See eg
http://www.scip.ch/en/?vuldb.68502                   # "critical" (?!)
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/99688              # medium risk