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5.5 Errata #006: X Font Service Protocol Erratum

Contributed by phessler on from the accidentally-weaponized-comic-sans dept.

As described in an email from Errata-meister Tedu on OpenBSD-Announce, from http://www.openbsd.org/errata55.html:

X Font Service Protocol & Font metadata file handling issues in libXfont
    CVE-2014-0209: integer overflow of allocations in font metadata file parsing
    CVE-2014-0210: unvalidated length fields when parsing xfs protocol replies
    CVE-2014-0211: integer overflows calculating memory needs for xfs replies

Please see the advisory for more information.
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-May/002431.html
Check out the build details after the break.
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OpenBSD 5.5 errata 6, May 24, 2014:  X Font Service Protocol
& Font metadata file handling issues in libXfont

This is revision 2 of the patch (the first version forgot to use
signify).

Apply patch using:

    signify -Vep /etc/signify/openbsd-55-base.pub -x 006_libXfont.patch.sig \
	-m - | (cd /usr/xenocara && patch -p0)

Then build and install libXfont

    cd /usr/xenocara/lib/libXfont
    make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj
    make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper build

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