Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:02:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-4 Makefile Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005021301410.55994-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpu2ghhr6n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 2 May 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Log:
> > Mark FORBIDDEN due to the root hole in the X server reported on Bugtraq.
> > I've tried *multiple* times to talk to an XFree86 developer about the
> > problem, but they haven't deigned to respond to me.
>
> I must have missed something - AFAIK, 4.0 was reported as not
> vulnerable, whereas 3.3.6 was vulnerable.
You missed me reporting it as vulnerable. Try this as non-root:
XFree86 -xkbmap `perl -e 'print "a"x5000'`
Kris
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