Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:30:40 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/linux-XFree86-libs Makefile distinfo.i386 Message-ID: <4050DA80.7070604@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20040306215342.GA91865@madman.celabo.org> References: <200403041722.i24HMSLN083120@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzpvflhu3nf.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040306153749.R55348@blues.jpj.net> <20040306215342.GA91865@madman.celabo.org>
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Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 04:17:23PM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote: > >>Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm?rgrav wrote: >> >> >>>Trevor Johnson <trevor@FreeBSD.org> writes: >>> >>>> Log: >>>> Update to version 4.3.0-2.90.55 due to several security bugs >>>> (discovered by iDefense and David Dawes) in the parsing of font >>>> files and the font.alias file which can give root privileges to >>>> local users. [...] >>> >>>This is pointless as the bug in question only affects the server. >> >>I hadn't noticed that--when I glanced at >><URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.3.0/fixes/fontfile.diff>, which >>addresses these bugs, it looked like the problem was in the X libraries, >>not the server. > > [...] > > The bugs *are* in a library (libXfont), but one could only exploit them > for privilege escalation in the server (which has libXfont compiled > internally). > > I added linux-XFree86-libs to the VuXML entry describing this > vulnerability > (http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/3837f462-5d6b-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a.html) > without thinking too much. Should I remove it? Just a reminder: This port is still listed in the FreeBSD VuXML database. Please take the appropriate action. Thanks Oliver
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