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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 2000 18:16:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86/patches patch-h
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009241805260.74856-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200009242312.QAA63864@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:

> jmz         2000/09/24 16:12:08 PDT
> 
>   Added files:
>     x11/XFree86/patches  patch-h 
>   Log:
>   Some problems were discovered in X11 libraries which can cause DoS in
>   libICE and xdm. Also some potiential buffer overflow may occur in XKB
>   options parsing (although they can't be exploited in OpenBSD's default
>   setup where the X servers are not setuid). This patch fixes all these
>   problems.

Hehe,,the OpenBSD bit was just the header to the patch from their ftp
site. It probably does apply to us, but I dont think it's exploitable in
practise.

Can you please bump PORTREVISION?

>   Submitted by:	kris

Obtained from:	XFree86 cvs repo where they were hiding it, via OpenBSD

Kris

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