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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Xorg security updates for the master branch
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:38:12 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 11:17:20PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> 
> > There is an Xorg security advisory:
> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-October/058344.html
> >
> > This patch series applies the patches recommended by upstream using
> > grafts.
> >
> > Leo Famulari (8):
> >   gnu: libx11: Fix CVE-2016-{7942,7943}.
> >   gnu: libxfixes: Fix CVE-2016-7944.
> >   gnu: libxi: Fix CVE-2016-{7945,7946}.
> >   gnu: libxrandr: Fix CVE-2016-{7947,7948}.
> >   gnu: libxrender: Fix CVE-2016-{7949,7950}.
> >   gnu: libxtst: Fix CVE-2016-{7951,7952}.
> >   gnu: libxv: Fix CVE-2016-5407.
> >   gnu: libxvmc: Fix CVE-2016-7953.
> 
> This all LGTM.
> 
> I tested by (1) building and a running a couple of grafted X clients
> talking to my (ungrafted) X server, and (2) building my laptop’s config
> with ‘guix system vm’ and checking that both the X server and typical X
> clients functioned.

Thank you for testing!

> So I think this can go in on master.

Pushed!

> (On core-updates it’s probably best to upgrade these libraries instead
> of patching them, as you wrote on IRC.)

I'll send those in a couple hours.