[PATCH] os: Make sure big requests have sufficient length.
Michal Srb
msrb at suse.com
Fri Jul 7 15:08:53 UTC 2017
Here is a script that can be used to crash X server using a broken big request
for PolyLine. It connects to DISPLAY=:1 and doesn't support authentication.
Look inside the script for more details.
Other requests could be used to crash X server in similar way, for example
SetFontPath.
Michal Srb
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