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Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 11:50:21 JST Alan Coopersmith

So the maintainer of our GNU emacs packages for #OracleSolaris was testing the upgrade to version 29, and asked me why every time he displayed emacs from a SPARC server to his x86 desktop, the X server crashed.
He filed a bug with upstream for it:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=69762
but it turns out it was Xorg upstream where the bug really was, and it was actually a security vulnerability in the byte-swapping code, which we announced today:
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2024-April/003497.html
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