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Just-Announced X.Org Security Flaws Affect Code Dating Back To 1987

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 9, 2014 @06:03AM from the we-have-a-history dept.

An anonymous reader writes 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. Fixes for the X Server are temporarily available via this Git repository.

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Wha?!?!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-09 06:10 · Score: 5, Funny

It's open source! Surely dedicated multitudes of programmers have been dutifully poring over the code for decades, searching high and low for potential flaws because ... well, just because it's there! Surely!
1. Re:Wha?!?!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-09 06:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Because Xorg is beautifully programmed and easy to understand so any programmer can quickly contribute to it's code.
2. Re:Wha?!?!!! by Qzukk · 2014-12-09 07:16 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  How dare you question his credentials! He's worked for no less than TEN startups, and he's never seen code that's more than three months old before it gets sold off and the company shuts down. That's 10 samples, statistically significant compared to whatever silly anecdote you've got from working at some hidebound behemoth like SAP or IBM for a decade! These posers don't even count!
  
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  If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Xorg? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-09 06:17 · Score: 0, Funny

I don't see that program listed in my Start menu. Whew, guess I'm safe!
What about XFree86? by halivar · 2014-12-09 06:19 · Score: 1, Funny

Or is that project even still around?