Re: Crashing X

[Seth Arnold <sarnold () wirex com>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:26:53PM +0000, scott wrote:
> I have discovered a little bug in K Desktop 2.1.2 that crashes your X Server.
[...]
> Also I tried this in netscape and it didn't work so it suggests its a 
> konqueror error somewhere or other.

Absolutely not. No X client should ever be able to cause the X server to
crash. (Same deal with compilers and input files .. no input file, no
matter how maliciously written, should ever cause a compiler to
segfault.) This is a bug in XFree86, and, luckily, a known bug. Sadly, I
don't recognize the fix on XFree86's security page.[1]

The vuln-dev Message-ID is <3B822F5F.99227A5F () snosoft com>. I saw a fix
for it on September 16th, so I'm rather hoping XFree86 releases newer
than that have the fix integrated.

Cheers!


[1]: http://www.xfree86.org/security/

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