FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix [REVISED]

Mon Nov 21 03:16:43 UTC 2011

Sorry but this security advisory has nothing to do with your misconfiguration of your system.

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:18:33PM +0000, Richard M. Timoney wrote:
> As far as I can see the bug mentioned in the above advisory is not fully
> fixed.
> 
> When logged in to a FreeBSD 8.2 machine with freshly updated /usr/src
> (world and kernel) [made on Wed Nov 16] via an XDMCP session, acroread
> says
> 
> No protocol specified
> 
> (acroread:2908): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> pc200404.maths.tcd.ie:0.0
> 
> Logged in to the same host via ssh -Y , I have DISPLAY set to something
> like localhost:10.0 and acroread does launch. It also launches on the
> console X display.
> 
> I would be happy with pointers as to a fix for this.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Richard Timoney
> 
> -- 
> Richard M. Timoney
> 		  (richardt at maths.tcd.ie)       Tel. +353-1-896 1196
>         School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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