Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 18:16:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86/patches patch-h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009241805260.74856-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200009242312.QAA63864@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:
> jmz 2000/09/24 16:12:08 PDT
>
> Added files:
> x11/XFree86/patches patch-h
> Log:
> Some problems were discovered in X11 libraries which can cause DoS in
> libICE and xdm. Also some potiential buffer overflow may occur in XKB
> options parsing (although they can't be exploited in OpenBSD's default
> setup where the X servers are not setuid). This patch fixes all these
> problems.
Hehe,,the OpenBSD bit was just the header to the patch from their ftp
site. It probably does apply to us, but I dont think it's exploitable in
practise.
Can you please bump PORTREVISION?
> Submitted by: kris
Obtained from: XFree86 cvs repo where they were hiding it, via OpenBSD
Kris
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