Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:37:00 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: dima@best.net Cc: guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij), eivind@yes.no, jkh@time.cdrom.com, cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca, tqbf@secnet.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD Security Advisory: mmap() Problem Message-ID: <199802280137.RAA00985@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:42:36 PST." <199802272042.MAA16246@burka.rdy.com>
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> Guido van Rooij writes:
> >
> > Perhaps it would be a good thing if we send a pointer to a possible
> > binary patch when sending out our advisory.
>
> Now that would be tricky. In this case we'll need to wait untill XiG will
> actually release the patch.
>
> >
> > -Guido
> >
>
> -- dima
I've just posted a patch to FreeBSD-Security that makes this a moot
point. The XIG X server shouldn't work at securelevel > 0 anyway so
the new patch allows their X server to write to /dev/mem while at
securelevel -1.
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