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From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
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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