Hi, Thomas Biege wrote:
SUSE Security Announcement
Package: xf86/XFree86 Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2004:006
having installed the update on SuSE 8.0, X still crashes using the method from http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=72&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=false Should that happen? cu, Frank ############# watson /root/tmp# rpm -q --changelog xf86 | head -n 5 * Thu Feb 12 2004 - thomas@suse.de - fixed more buffer overflows in fontfile/ direc (#34296) - put together old and new bugs in fontfile-sec_bufferoverflows.diff # having the fonts.alias and fonts.dir in tmp/: watson /root/tmp# X :0 -fp $PWD XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 January 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Tue Feb 24 10:10:34 2004 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" Fatal server error: Caught signal 4. Server aborting When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to feedback@suse.de. ############## cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Mail: fst_at_bio.informatik.uni-muenchen.de Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Phone: +49 89 2180-4049, Fax: -4054 LMU, Amalienstr. 17 http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/ 80333 Muenchen, Germany * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *