[LON-CAPA-admin] XFree86 security update for RedHat 7.3

[Martin Siegert]

There exist several buffer overflows that can be exploited by local
users to gain root authority. For those of you who run RedHat 7.3:
you can get updated packages at:

http://www.sfu.ca/acs/security/linux/7.3/

update info:

rpm -Fvh XFree86-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-libs-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-twm-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-xdm-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-xf86cfg-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-xfs-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-Xnest-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-Xvfb-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-tools-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-devel-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-doc-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-font-utils-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
         XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm

(as usual: no warranties whatsoever; these packages were generated by
recompiling the latest RedHat 7.3 packages with the security patch from
Fedora 1 for the vulnerability mentioned above).

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Siegert
Manager, Research Services
WestGrid Site Manager
Academic Computing Services                        phone: (604) 291-4691
Simon Fraser University                            fax:   (604) 291-4242
Burnaby, British Columbia                          email: siegert at sfu.ca
Canada  V5A 1S6