Virtual Box gives the user a few seconds to do stuff before locking

Bug #1651033 reported by Eli
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gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I had a Windows 10 image running on Virtual Box, and I restarted the Windows 10 image on virtual box, and left the computer (host and guest) alone. When I came back, my monitors were turned off (like, in sleep mode) like they were in sleep mode. When I typed in a few keys to get everything to wake up again, I was typing into my Windows 10 image my account password. But then, I moved my mouse over to the other monitor (the host OS - Ubuntu Linux LTS 16.04), and started doing stuff on my web browser (Google Chrome), a few seconds after, the screen locked (almost like if the computer has a brain fart and was like "oh shit, this was supposed to be locked. Let me fix my mistake.") and I had to type in the password for the host operating system.

Doesn't this mean that the user had a few unauthorized seconds to do stuff on the host OS, before being locked out?

Hopefully I explained this well.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-screensaver 3.6.1-7ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-53.74-generic 4.4.30
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Dec 18 22:31:30 2016
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GsettingsGnomeSession:
 org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'ubuntu'
 org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay uint32 300
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-24 (56 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
Symptom: security
Title: Screen locking issue
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Eli (eliterdaboss) wrote :
information type: Private Security → Public Security
Revision history for this message
Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 49579, so it is being marked as such.

This is a fundamental bug in the design of X11 and cannot be easily fixed within X11.

You should manually lock your screen if a locked session is important to you.

Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

information type: Public Security → Public
Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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