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Bugtraq archives for 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) 1998: Buffer overflow in Xprt

Buffer overflow in Xprt

Paolo Molaro (lupusLETTERE.UNIPD.IT)
Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:24:25 +0100

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There is a buffer overflow in the postscript backend of the
Xprint server: look at the S_OutStr() function in the file psout.c.
A user-supplied variable-lenght string is stored in a 512 sized buffer.
This bug is present in version R6, public-patch-3 and later.

WORKAROUND: do not run the Xprt server.
FIX: make the function malloc() a buffer big enough and recompile.

xfree86 and opengroup have been notified a while ago.

lupus

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