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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Wha?!?!!! by Anonymous Coward · · 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!

  2. In before the trolls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Open Source does not guarantee that all of the bugs will be found, it merely guarantees that all of the bugs can be found.