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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 15:55:04 +0000
From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Debian / xterm #779397

2015-03-03 12:45:50 +0100, Marcus Meissner:
[...]
> In modern times xterm should not be setuid root, but there might be legacy
> systems where it is.
[...]

The bug/crash happens after xterm has dropped privileges, so
even there, that would not be an issue.

-- 
Stephane

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