[12202] in bugtraq
Re: MicroImages MIX X Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Lafferty)
Sat Oct 9 15:53:26 1999
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 22:17:29 -0400
Reply-To: Rich Lafferty <rich@ALCOR.CONCORDIA.CA>
From: Rich Lafferty <rich@ALCOR.CONCORDIA.CA>
X-To: H D Moore <secureaustin@CONSULTANT.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <37FB8BE4.3A5C7863@consultant.com>; from "H D Moore" on Wed,
Oct 06, 1999 at 12:50:28PM
Quoting H D Moore (secureaustin@CONSULTANT.COM) from Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:50:28PM -0500:
> The last version of MIX X Server I used did not have any authentication
> to speak of (so xhost, xauth, etc). It not only crashed when I sent
> garbage to it's tcp port, but tended to randomly crash the X
> applications running on them. Just my .02 --
That must have been a while ago. Both the Windows and MacOS versions of
MI/X from 1997 have host-based authentication.
-Rich
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