XFree86 3.3.3 on RedHat 5.2. Why is RedHat waiting??

From: Domas Mituzas (midomat_private)
Date: Mon Mar 29 1999 - 08:04:44 PST

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    I'm observing RedHat Linux errata and still I
do not find any news about XFree 3.3.3 server.
I have rpm

[midom@flag /tmp]$ rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-3.3.3.1-1

(latest available from RedHat errata page)

why is RedHat delaying release of this package
as it smells like root takeover (it was too easy
to change /etc/ and /etc/passwd permissions to
something neat).

So again everyone should know, that there are
other than vendor-provided security pages, as
there is no information about fixing bug even
in one of most important Linux sites.

This is cross-platform bug, as I found it in
all OS that run XFree86 3.3.3 server. As far as
I know it is on every Linux distribution (especially
newest ones) and BSD's.

  With respect,
  Domas Mituzas
  aka dammit

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