Security announcement from Redhat

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Just in case you are not in the redhat mailing list.


Major security holes have been found in the X libraries and xterm, which
allow local users access to the root user. All Red Hat 4.x and 5.x systems
which X-Windows installed should update their systems. Packages for the
SPARC are not yet available. When they are, we will post a separate 
announcement so sparc-list@redhat.com providing full information on those
fixes.

Thanks to the XFree86 group for providing patches for these problems.

Red Hat 5.0 and 5.1
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i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/i386/XFree86-3.3.2-11.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/i386/XFree86-libs-3.3.2-11.i386.rpm

alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/alpha/XFree86-3.3.2-11.alpha.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/alpha/XFree86-libs-3.3.2-11.alpha.rpm

Red Hat 4.2
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i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/i386/XFree86-3.3.2-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/i386/XFree86-libs-3.3.2-1.i386.rpm

alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/alpha/XFree86-3.3.2-1.alpha.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/alpha/XFree86-libs-3.3.2-1.alpha.rpm


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