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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:33:03 -0800
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@...ctive.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] X.Org Security Advisory: Protocol
 handling issues in X servers

[This dances back and forth all over the line between on-topic and off-topic
  for this list, apologies if it falls on the wrong side.]

On 12/ 9/14 08:04 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Other providers of Xserver or GLX implementations based on the same
> code base (the X Consortium or X.Org Foundation X sources, or the
> SGI GLX sources) will announce the availability of any fixes necessary
> for their implementations.

One such provider who uses the permissively licensed (MIT) GLX code in
their closed source software which is redistributed in and for a number
of open source OS'es is NVIDIA, who has released their own advisory now:

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3610

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc

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