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Re: xfig-3.2.5 diff (CVE-2009-1962)


From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml () ngolde de>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:46:27 +0200

Hi,
* Tomas Hoger <thoger () redhat com> [2009-06-11 11:31]:
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:49:48 +0200 Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer () suse de>
wrote:

just in case you need it, our maintainer asked me to forward
a patch for $SUBJECT which has been fixed in our xfig
for quite some time.

Looks like the patch you attached does not differ much from what we use
for some time too and seems to have an origin here:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=67351

And it does not differ much from what Nico previously posted:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/1609

However, Nico's patch, probably taken from Fedora XFig packages, has
one hunk missing for:

Yes this is the patch by the Fedora maintainer, I took it 
from our Debian package. You are correct, it looks 
incomplete, the hunk is as well missing in our packages.

Roland, can you fix that please?

Cheers
nico
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