Bug 66658
| Summary: | xfs security issue with large fonts | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Bojan Smojver <bojan> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | CC: | barryn, k.georgiou, namonai |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/25689.html | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-04-20 12:45:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 67218 | ||
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Description
Bojan Smojver
2002-06-13 05:54:13 UTC
I've been investigating this issue since the problem was first discovered. Unfortunately there currently is no fix available, and properly fixing it seems to be a non-trivial amount of work. The upstream maintainer of the code in question does not plan on fixing the code, which leaves things in a very sticky situation for the time being. We'll be tracking this issue closely, and working along with other distribution and OS vendors to hopefully come up with a solution as soon as possible. I get a "connection refused" when I visit this URL, so I cannot verify the problem; but I seem to be having this same problem when I load a very complex web page. XFS seems to use up 100% of the system, and xmms starts skipping (this is an Athlon XP1700 with 512MB of RAM) and the whole computer is unresponsive for seconds on end. It eventually recovers, but it is annoying. Fixing this problem is currently very complex and requires a lot of effort. The XFree86 team does not plan on resolving this issue for current releases, and is instead removing the faulty codepaths and using entirely new code in XFree86 4.3.0. I'm not sure how we'll handle this issue for 4.2.0, so I'm defering this for the future. In the interim, if any public solution surfaces, we will investigate it and consider releasing erratum. *** Bug 74297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 74228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major
updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users
who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the
latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download
If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest
version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org
bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg"
component.
Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new
bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the
centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that
become available for consideration in future updates.
Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE".
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