Bug 18798

Summary:	unchecked setuid in xinit
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	MA <mpachary>
Component:	App/xinit	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.9.0
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description MA 2008-11-28 11:08:29 UTC

./xc/programs/xinit/xinit.c:695:		setuid(getuid()); ### return value of setuid not checked.

Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2008-12-01 08:24:05 UTC

6.9.0 is an obsolete release, issued almost three years ago.   Much work has
happened since then in the X11R7.x series of releases, of which 7.4 is the latest,
from September 2008.   This bug was fixed in those releases in 2006.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7116 ***

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