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Bug#: 194606
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Reporter: Arttu Valo <arttuv69@gmail.com>
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Description:   Opened: 2007-10-03 13:38 0000 
"Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the X.Org X11 X Font Server (XFS),
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges."

Reported to have been fixed in XFS 1.0.5.

http://secunia.com/advisories/27040/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4568
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security?highlight=%28xfs%29

Reproducible: Didn't try

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------- Comment #1 From Robert Buchholz 2007-10-03 22:46:06 0000 ------- 
Thanks Artuu.

x11, please advise.

------- Comment #2 From Donnie Berkholz 2007-10-03 23:27:19 0000 ------- 
Yeah, I saw this stuff. Was thinking it might be convenient to just push 
out a single GLSA for xfs, combined with the previous fix to the init 
script. I'll get something in the tree soon.

------- Comment #3 From Donnie Berkholz 2007-10-07 10:17:22 0000 ------- 
1.0.5 is in the tree.

------- Comment #4 From Robert Buchholz 2007-10-07 10:39:08 0000 ------- 
Arches, please test and mark stable.
Targets: "alpha amd64 arm hppa mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"

------- Comment #5 From Tobias Scherbaum 2007-10-07 16:45:26 0000 ------- 
ppc stable

------- Comment #6 From Christian Faulhammer 2007-10-08 14:25:19 0000 ------- 
x86 stable

------- Comment #7 From Raúl Porcel 2007-10-08 15:34:23 0000 ------- 
alpha/sparc stable

------- Comment #8 From Jeroen Roovers 2007-10-08 16:01:02 0000 ------- 
Stable for HPPA.

------- Comment #9 From Steve Dibb 2007-10-09 02:05:25 0000 ------- 
amd64 stable

------- Comment #10 From Markus Rothe 2007-10-11 08:16:46 0000 ------- 
ppc64 stable

------- Comment #11 From Tobias Heinlein 2007-10-11 17:49:09 0000 ------- 
All arches done, please file a GLSA request.

------- Comment #12 From Robert Buchholz 2007-10-11 20:30:28 0000 ------- 
(In reply to comment #11)
> All arches done, please file a GLSA request.

filed.

------- Comment #13 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-10-12 21:53:50 0000 ------- 
GLSA 200710-11

------- Comment #14 From Joshua Kinard 2007-11-20 05:19:29 0000 ------- 
mips stable.

------- Comment #15 From Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-12-11 13:04:09 0000 ------- 
11:55:52 <+CIA-23> vapier * gentoo-x86/x11-apps/xfs/ (xfs-1.0.5.ebuild
xfs-1.0.4-r1.ebuild): 
11:55:52 <+CIA-23> arm/s390/sh stable
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