Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys

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Oddly enough: since yesterday, we haven't been able to reproduce the crash here. Pressing ē on the on-screen keyboard, or changing the keyboard input language and pressing anything, both just result in characters being added to the password input. The only package change since my comment earlier in the issue was to upgrade NVIDIA drivers from 450.80.02 to 450.102.04. That did include an upgrade of xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-450 which sounds like it could be related, but I am skeptical. Pretty strange.

This Linux thing doesn't seem very reliable.