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Multiple X.Org Vulnerabilities Found, One Is from 1987

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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One of the most important features of the open source development community is its ability to self-correct, even if it takes a very long time. A number of issues in X servers have been corrected recently, and some of them were actually very old. The record holder is a bug introduced back in 1987.

There are not many pieces of old code still running in our Linux computers. The X server is probably one of the oldest, but it's also a piece of software that's constantly being worked on and improved. As it seems, not everything is about new features, sometimes it's also about fixing problems and the developers have just found a sleuth of vulnerabilities, some of them being quite old.

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