X11 crashes

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 11.06.24 14:41, Rathnavel J N wrote:
> Tried build the master branch stuck
> compiling it ,
> Throws
> ../include contains GC
> already defined in /usr/include/xlib/xlib.h

Can you send us a complete log ?


thx.

--mtx



>
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 at 18:08, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
> <info at metux.net <mailto:info at metux.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 11.06.24 10:39, Rathnavel J N wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>      > Xsererver version is
>      >
>      > X -version
>      >
>      > X.Org X Server 1.20.13
>
>     Maybe try building from master branch.
>     https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver
>     <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver>
>
>     I believe that should alreay been fixed there.
>
>     See:
>     https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/8c4a015cc2e09dd9314e9e5e33c22765b4ea7474 <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/8c4a015cc2e09dd9314e9e5e33c22765b4ea7474>
>
>     Haven't seen practically seen it yet, but there's chance that by
>     requesting a the some non-existing but long enough color name, the
>     lookup loop could overflow on the text block. Didn't actually test it,
>     but something like "YellowBlueGarbageFooBar" could be enough. Depending
>     on what the compiler actually created, this could reach out of the
>     .cdata section into some non-readable (or non-mapped) page, thus leading
>     to segfault.
>
>     --mtx
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