George White wrote:
Quoting Harry Nicholls <hnicholls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
[...] I accessed a Fedora mirror site and downloaded all the rpms for
xorg-x11*.FC4.45 and used your suggestion of rpm -Uvh with the -oldpackages
option. Xserver :0 now work fines again.
Depends on what you mean by "fine" -- to me, a system on which "It is possible
for a user to gain elevated privileges by loading a specially crafted pixmap
image." (quoting from the announcement for xorg-x11 release 37.FC4.48.1) would
only be considered "fine" by the standards of a certain well-known large
software vendor, and certainly not by the linux community.
I agree with you that security is important. It is also important to
have normal priveledges on your computer also for your use. Since this
version of X was a security update, elevated status to get the bug fixed
should be a priority to fix X with an improved version.
We don't want to mirror the big software company.
I'm getting ready to upgrade my FC3 installation to FC4 and apply all of
the updates including X to it. If a bug report is filed already, I'll
attach my findings to it. Intel 815 and Intel 865G video cards working
is important to me with the computers I own or are property of my employer.
Has anyone filed a bug against X yet?
Jim
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