Security issue fixed in mutter

Hi,

A few moments ago, three merge requests landed that fixed a recently reported security issue that could potentially be problematic in multi user systems on distributions where the /tmp/.X11-unix/ directory is not set up correctly. Distributions using systemd are not affected, nor is any distribution that sets up said directory correctly using some other mechanism. For users on multi user system on a distribution that doesn’t do this, the fix is likely more important.

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1708 for information about the security issue.

The issue was fixed in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1787, and backported to 3.38 in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1788 3.36 in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1789.

Many thanks to Fabian for reporting the issue, and @ofourdan for fixing it.

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