Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-updates (31 mails)

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   openSUSE Recommended Update: xorg-x11-libXext: This update fixes a race 
condition in libXext
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-RU-2010:0210-1
Rating:             low
References:         #578577 
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE 11.2
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   An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed.

Description:

   XAllocID must only be called with the Display lock held.
   There's a race condition in libXext that causes apps that
   use the X shared memory extensions to occasionally crash.
   It affects lots of X programs, including Evolution,
   Firefox, various parts of Gnome, etc. Fixed by this update.


Patch Instructions:

   To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - openSUSE 11.2:

      zypper in -t patch xorg-x11-libXext-2379

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - openSUSE 11.2 (i586 src x86_64):

      xorg-x11-libXext-7.4-7.2.1

   - openSUSE 11.2 (i586 x86_64):

      xorg-x11-libXext-devel-7.4-7.2.1

   - openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64):

      xorg-x11-libXext-32bit-7.4-7.2.1
      xorg-x11-libXext-devel-32bit-7.4-7.2.1


References:

   https://bugzilla.novell.com/578577