2 Oct 23:27
XFree86 MIT-SHM vulnerability
Hello everyone. I didn't see fixes for the MIT-SHM vulnerability from any vendor besides the Caldera update for XFree86-4.1.2 from March: http://old.lwn.net/alerts/Caldera/CSSA-2002-009.0.php3 The point is that, as far as I can understand, even that fix is not complete, as stated in the XFree86 security page: (http://www.xfree86.org/security/) * The MIT-SHM update in 4.2.1 is incomplete as the case where the X server is started from xdm was not handled. A more complete fix from the XFree86 trunk has been committed to the xf-4_2-branch branch. A source patch against 4.2.1 is available on the XFree86 FTP site. So, any vendor planning a (new) release for this vulnerability? Or maybe someone released something and I'm blind? Anyway, the new patch mentioned definetely fails to apply in 4.0.3. I didn't investigate it and if someone is working on it, please tell me (otherwise I'll do it by myself(Continue reading). Still talking about XFree86, I didn't see advisories/fixes from all vendors (except SuSE, IIRC) for the xlib i18n local vulnerability... Any special reason for this delay? I don't know if it's just my feeling, but looks like everyone is "afraid" of updating XFree86
. The MIT-SHM and the xlib i18n vulns sound very dangerous to me, and I remember an old issue about using large fonts to cause a serious DoS (mozilla was a vector for the attack - it's fixed already -, but
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Still talking about XFree86, I didn't see advisories/fixes from all vendors
(except SuSE, IIRC) for the xlib i18n local vulnerability... Any special
reason for this delay?
I don't know if it's just my feeling, but looks like everyone is "afraid" of
updating XFree86
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