On 03/05/06, Ste Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is Theo the automated code scanner mentioned here?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060502/tc_zd/177195
In reference to this commit
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/XF4/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Init.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14
7 days before the official patch
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R6.9.0/patches/x11r6.9.0-geteuid.diff
Just curious
I think Theo's comment also deserves some attention:
proper geteuid calls because suse hires people who mistype things
The article doesn't really mention this, but it looks like it's not
one of the original X bugs, but the one that was added in X.Org 6.9.0
by, according to Theo, SuSE. I.e. it could not have been discovered
two years ago, because it didn't exist at that time. :)
One other good conclusion, is that no OpenBSD -RELEASEs were ever
affected by this bug. :)
Constantine.
