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Re: Fixing CVE-2013-4396 in squeeze-backports



On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:47:39 +0200, intrigeri wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> do you have any plans to fix CVE-2013-4396 in squeeze-backports?
> (Rationale: Tails ships Xorg from squeeze-backports.)
> 
> If you don't, may I assume that the following would work:
> 
>   1. set up a Squeeze + backports chroot
>   2. retrieve the xorg-server source package from squeeze-backports
>   3. add the patch that was applied in the Wheezy security update
>   4. build in the aforementioned chroot
> 
> ?
> 
That should work.  I think either the squeeze or the wheezy patch should
apply just fine, modulo whitespace.

Cheers,
Julien

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