[10046] in bugtraq
XFree86 3.3.3 on RedHat 5.2. Why is RedHat waiting??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Domas Mituzas)
Tue Mar 30 22:56:12 1999
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:04:44 +0300
Reply-To: midom@DAMMIT.LT
From: Domas Mituzas <midom@DAMMIT.LT>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
I'm observing RedHat Linux errata and still I
do not find any news about XFree 3.3.3 server.
I have rpm
[midom@flag /tmp]$ rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-3.3.3.1-1
(latest available from RedHat errata page)
why is RedHat delaying release of this package
as it smells like root takeover (it was too easy
to change /etc/ and /etc/passwd permissions to
something neat).
So again everyone should know, that there are
other than vendor-provided security pages, as
there is no information about fixing bug even
in one of most important Linux sites.
This is cross-platform bug, as I found it in
all OS that run XFree86 3.3.3 server. As far as
I know it is on every Linux distribution (especially
newest ones) and BSD's.
With respect,
Domas Mituzas
aka dammit
