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Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nice-catch dept.

Amy's Robot writes "An open-source security audit program funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has flagged a critical vulnerability in the X Window System (X11) which is used in Unix and Linux systems. A missing parentheses in a bit of code is to blame. The error can grant a user root access, and was discovered using an automated code-scanning tool." While serious, the flaw has already been corrected.

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  1. It's not soduku, dammit (was:Related news) by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ... and have completed a record number of soduku puzzles in newspapers around the country.
    It's SU-DOKU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku, DAMMIT!
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    ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?