1847033 - Last update caused keyboard to type qwerty sequence (ZoneAlarm anti-keylogger)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(External Software Affecting Firefox :: Other, defect, P2)

Description

[dandelion1967]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/115.0.1901.188

Steps to reproduce:

Last update caused keyboard to repeat qwerty sequence instead of typed letter.
It has happened before but, a pc restart or Firefox restart fixed it. Could be a conflict with Zonealarm NextGen.

Comment 1

[Kestrel]

Multiple reports, first two confirmed to be associated with ZoneAlarm anti-keylogger.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1420048
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1420073
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1420026
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1420054
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1419929

Possibly regressed by Bug 1777960.

Comment 2

[Greg Stoll :gstoll]

Oof, thanks for filing this.

Comment 3

[Greg Stoll :gstoll]

Attachment: Bug 1847033 - unblock ZoneAlarm Anti-Keylogger to fix keyboard issues r=gsvelto

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/dc0660f2bf90
unblock ZoneAlarm Anti-Keylogger to fix keyboard issues r=yjuglaret

Comment 5

[Greg Stoll :gstoll]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1420073 indicates that ZoneAlarm may have fixed the original crash (bug 1777960). I am able to reproduce the crash with the older ZoneAlarm version (and icsak.dll unblocked) - let me try updating ZoneAlarm.

Comment 6

[JR Johnson]

Other identified users with questions posted to the forum about this. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/firefox?owner=all&show=all&tagged=bug1847033

Comment 7

[Greg Stoll :gstoll]

Attachment: Bug 1847033 - unblock ZoneAlarm Anti-Keylogger to fix keyboard issues r=gsvelto

Original Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D185334

Comment 8

[Phabricator Automation]

Uplift Approval Request

• String changes made/needed: no
• Risk associated with taking this patch: low
• Needs manual QE test: no
• Fix verified in Nightly: yes
• Code covered by automated testing: no
• User impact if declined: users with ZoneAlarm anti-keylogger keystrokes are mangled in Firefox
• Is Android affected?: no
• Steps to reproduce for manual QE testing: n/a
• Explanation of risk level: just reversing the block on a DLL. This will likely cause the crash from bug 1777960 to reappear, but that's less bad then breaking the keyboard for every single ZoneAlarm anti-keylogger user, and we're re-engaging ZoneAlarm about the crash.

Comment 9

[Greg Stoll :gstoll]

Attachment: Bug 1847033 - unblock ZoneAlarm Anti-Keylogger to fix keyboard issues r=gsvelto

Original Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D185334

Comment 10

[Phabricator Automation]

Uplift Approval Request

• Is Android affected?: no
• User impact if declined: users with ZoneAlarm anti-keylogger keystrokes are mangled in Firefox
• Code covered by automated testing: no
• Steps to reproduce for manual QE testing: n/a
• Explanation of risk level: just reversing the block on a DLL. This will likely cause the crash from bug 1777960 to reappear, but that's less bad then breaking the keyboard for every single ZoneAlarm anti-keylogger user, and we're re-engaging ZoneAlarm about the crash.
• String changes made/needed: no
• Risk associated with taking this patch: low
• Needs manual QE test: no
• Fix verified in Nightly: yes

Comment 11

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/dc0660f2bf90

Comment 12

[Dianna Smith [:diannaS]]

Comment on attachment 9347480 [details]
Bug 1847033 - unblock ZoneAlarm Anti-Keylogger to fix keyboard issues r=gsvelto

Approved for 117.0b4

Comment 13

[Pulsebot]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/cd87be9c7e34

Comment 14

[Dianna Smith [:diannaS]]

Comment on attachment 9347482 [details]
Bug 1847033 - unblock ZoneAlarm Anti-Keylogger to fix keyboard issues r=gsvelto

Approved for 116.0.2

Comment 15

[Pulsebot]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/ae781417692a

Comment 16

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop QA [:csasca]]

I was able to reproduce the issue with ZoneAlarm Extreme Security: 15.8.211.19229 on Firefox 116.0.1 on Windows 10.

The issue is fixed on Firefox 116.0.2, Firefox 117.0b4 and Firefox 118.0a1 (2023-08-05) on the same system.