CVE-2017-16611 libXfont Open files with O_NOFOLLOW

[Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb () laas fr>]

Hi,

X.Org has just release libXfont 1.5.4 and libXfont2 2.0.3 which
contain the following security fix:

Author:     Michal Srb <msrb () suse com>
AuthorDate: Thu Oct 26 09:48:13 2017 +0200
Commit:     Matthieu Herrb <matthieu () herrb eu>
CommitDate: Sat Nov 25 11:46:50 2017 +0100

    Open files with O_NOFOLLOW. (CVE-2017-16611)

    A non-privileged X client can instruct X server running under root
    to open any file by creating own directory with "fonts.dir",
    "fonts.alias" or any font file being a symbolic link to any other
    file in the system. X server will then open it. This can be issue
    with special files such as /dev/watchdog.

https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188049718337&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188044218304&w=2
-- 
Matthieu Herrb

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