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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1999: Re: Bug in xfs

Re: Bug in xfs

Matthieu Herrb (matthieulaas.fr)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:04:17 +0200

You wrote (in your message from Tuesday 30)
 >
 > I hope that's information will be useful for making new patch for
 > XFree86.
 >
 > I found bug in xfs


This is caused by the same bug in xc/lib/xtrans that "in.telnetd"
<telnetdDOEMILL.SHOCKING.COM> reported under the subject "X11R6 NetBSD
Security Problem" last week.

The patch I submitted (with stat() replaced by lstat(), as noted by
Kevin Vajk and other) also fixes that.
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					Matthieu