GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 720525
Gnome-shell auto answers incoming audio/video calls
Last modified: 2014-04-26 15:34:06 UTC
Distribution - Trisquel 6 GNOME 3.4.2 with Kernel 3.2.0-57-generic Gnome-shell version provided with Trisquel 6, auto answers incoming audio and video calls. It doesn't show any warning or notification for incoming call. It simply starts transmitting audio/video from the computer that receives the call without the consent of the recipient. How to replicate the issue: 1) Install gnome shell on Trisquel 6. 2) Add your xmpp/jabber/google account to the default IM client (empathy). This starts operating in the background. Your status can be set from the desktop. 3) Log out from the desktop and log in. Your online status is now shown without starting empathy. 4) Call yourself (call the account you added to empathy) from another computer, another account. 5) Your desktop will auto-answer the audio/video call.
Can you reproduce the issue using a more recent version? 3.4.x is very old and is no longer supported upstream (and hasn't been for more than a year actually). There have been quite a few changes in this area over the last 1.5-2 years ...
(In reply to comment #1) > Can you reproduce the issue using a more recent version? 3.4.x is very old and > is no longer supported upstream (and hasn't been for more than a year > actually). There have been quite a few changes in this area over the last 1.5-2 > years ... No I could not reproduce this in more recent versions such as 3.8.x . I submitted the bug after a discussion took place in Trisquel forum ( https://trisquel.info/en/forum/gnome-shell-privacy-issue-auto-answering-voice-and-video-calls ) and issue tracker ( https://trisquel.info/en/issues/10724 ) because this is the version Trisquel 6 (supported till 2017) and several other Ubuntu LTS based distros ship. So, Trisquel should either start shipping a newer version or get this fixed somewhere downstream, I guess.
Closing as of comment #2.