xdm security hole

[Kurt Seifried]

> Hi everyone,
>
> every comment about this:
>
> http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16264
>
> Didn't find any hint or patch on http://www.xfree86.org/security/.
>
> Best regards
>
> Konrad Heuer (kheuer2 at gwdg.de)  ____            ___  _______

There's a patch from the OpenBSD project:

http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html

And I know Red Hat has acknowledged the flaw in Fedora. I don't know if
FreeBSD is affected (X 4.3.0 later? IPv6 backported?)

Kurt Seifried, kurt at seifried.org
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