I am not completely aware of a security implication of this bug, but possibly
the non correct update of utmp by (?) program would lead to some race condition
and may be security bug in other applications.
I just tagged security, to draw dev attentions, becuase it could be server
related, too.
** Also affects: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags added: security
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tty login sessions do not correctly get updated in /var/run/utmp
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571988
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