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Old 26th October 2018
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Default Xorg and OpenBSD security record on the Base Install.

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Ouch. I wonder why that happened the way it did. Holding back sth. like that in the final run-up to a release seems weird.
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This is the patch that introduced the problem: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/...mit/032b1d79b7

This is really silly mistake, lessons here are:

- Don't refactor code when doing a s/oldFunction/newFunction/; it's tempting, but also likely to introduce silly bugs like this.

- Code reviews are important!
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Carpetsmoker, your link is broken.

EDIT: found it:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/...mit/032b1d79b7

Courtesy of:
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-14665

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