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Re: URGENT: libXt problems

Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes:

> > our version is not setuid-root. What exploits are we vulnerable?
> 
> Any xterm-related ones.  I don't have them handy.  (I also don't know,
> but assume, that rxvt is vulnerable to the same things, since it's
> actually Xt that's the problem.)
> 
> As for -3.3: that is *not* an option unless we want to delay the
> release by at least a *month*.  [3.3 has *not* shipped yet; heck, I
> sent in some of my last round of debian improvements this past
> weekend, and got mail back that they were integrating them!]

If it were the only way of fixing the security bug we would have to do
this ...

> However, I have received some patches and can produce a 3.2-7 build
> with them this weekend.  I would like to know if the qa-team *wants*
> such a build, and if it should just go in frozen, and if it'll go in
> 1.3 or 1.3.1 or what...

... but this is definitely a better solution. I herewith retract my
"wait for 3.3" proposal.

IMHO this must go into 1.3, there is no point doing a release
containing well-known security bugs of this kind.

	Sven
-- 
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/


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