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Bug#4332: Vulnerability in the Xt library (fwd)



Owen Dunn:
> I'm currently trying to clear some of Steve Early's backlog of X
> package bugs; this'll be among them (though it may be a while longer
> before the packages get converted to the new source format.)

Thanks.  One suggestion: this particular bug is a quite serious
one (uid 0 exploit for FreeBSD has been posted to bugtraq; it
probably wouldn't be too hard for someone to adapt it for Linux).
So I think the fix should go in the "stable" tree as well, before
converting to the new format...

Marek



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