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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:25:01AM -0500, Barnes, John wrote:
> Has anyone see this alert?
> 
> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/353352

See
<URL:http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/3837f462-5d6b-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a.html>
for information on the FreeBSD XFree86 package.

> It seems to work on Linux, but when I tried the proof of concept on
> 4.3.0,1 running 5.2 RELEASE, I couldn't get the X server to core dump
> or segmentation fault.  So, it seems likely to me that FreeBSD is not
> vulnerable to this.   Any other thoughts on this matter?

I cannot speculate as to why ``the proof of concept'' didn't work for
you.  Likely an error in ``the proof of concept'', whatever it is.

All versions of XFree86 on all platforms are vulnerable.  Furthermore,
it seems that many other X11R6-based servers are vulnerable, as the bug
goes way back.  It is a very simple `strcpy' buffer overflow.

Cheers,
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Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org