From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 25 15:53:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25723 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 15:53:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flarn.dyn.ml.org (root@ss01b58.third-wave.com [147.72.123.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25652 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 15:52:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@flarn.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from mph@localhost) by flarn.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17441; Mon, 25 May 1998 18:41:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mph) Message-ID: <19980525184142.A17140@flarn.dyn.ml.org> Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 18:41:42 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: bsd mailing lists , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xterm bug, or w or who bug??!!! Mail-Followup-To: bsd mailing lists , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from bsd mailing lists on Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:00:28PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:00:28PM +0200, bsd mailing lists wrote: > why does xterm behaves like this when a user quit the program?? A bug that has been fixed. flarn:~/FreeBSD/ports/x11/XFree86$ cvs log -r1.41 Makefile RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/x11/XFree86/Makefile,v Working file: Makefile head: 1.41 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: RELEASE_2_2_6: 1.39 RELEASE_2_2_5: 1.36 RELEASE_2_2_1: 1.29 RELEASE_2_2_2: 1.29 XFree86_3_1: 1.1.1.1 XFree86: 1.1.1 keyword substitution: kv total revisions: 42; selected revisions: 1 description: ---------------------------- revision 1.41 date: 1998/05/05 21:47:21; author: jmz; state: Exp; lines: +9 -1 This is bugfix patch number 1 for XFree86 3.3.2. This patch fixes the following problems: - xterm utmp handling problem. - exploitable buffer overflows in xterm related to the preeditType, inputMethod and *Keymap resources. - fix xterm's mishandling of the -vb command line option. - fix an invisible cursor problem with xterm. - exploitable buffer overflows in setuid programs using the Xaw library which are related to the preeditType and inputMethod resources. ============================================================================= -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message