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Old 9th December 2014
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Default X.Org Security Flaws Affect Code Dating Back To 1987

From http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/12/0...g-back-to-1987

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Some of the worst X.Org security issues were just publicized in an X.Org security advisory. The vulnerabilities deal with protocol handling issues and led to 12 CVEs published and code dating back to 1987 is affected within X11.
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Se...ry-2014-12-09/
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OpenBSD has committed fixes for -current, 5.6-stable, and 5.5-stable.
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These have now been published as errata, along with other errata today.

For 5.6, it is patch 014.
For 5.5, it is patch 019.
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