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'Critical' security bugs dating back to 1987 found in X Window

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Not my code

No mention of XGKS or PEX. Whew! In the clear. (None of my other X11 stuff ever made it out of IBM, as far as I know. Thank goodness.)

Or to put it another way, apparently no one's bothered doing a security analysis of XGKS or PEX yet...

(I almost want to dig up the XGKS metafile handling source. I have vague memories of fixing - this would have been around '89, I think - various overflows there, but I strongly suspect now that my "fixes" are rather fragile under deliberate attack. Oh well - it's not part of any stock X11 distribution, and probably isn't used much. Though I see Steve Emmerson migrated it to Sourceforge in 2000. Warms the cockles of my heart, that does.)

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