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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://fosstodon.org/users/alanc/statuses/112209363667693562">Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 11:50:21 JST</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@alanc" title="alanc@fosstodon.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/149449-48-20230714154441.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Alan Coopersmith" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Alan Coopersmith</a></section><article><p>So the maintainer of our GNU emacs packages for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OracleSolaris" rel="tag">#OracleSolaris</a> 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.</p><p>He filed a bug with upstream for it:<br><a href="https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=69762" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=69762</a></p><p>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:<br><a href="https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2024-April/003497.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2024-April/003497.html</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2897116#notice-5758834">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-04-04T11:50:21+09:00" title="Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 11:50:21 JST">about 7 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@alanc/112209363667693562" rel="external" title="Sent from fosstodon.org via ActivityPub">fosstodon.org</a></span></span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@alanc/112209363667693562">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=69762but">#69762 - X11 versions of Emacs 29 on sparc fail at startup - GNU bug report logs</a></h5><div></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2024-April/003497.html">X.Org Security Advisory: Issues in X.Org X server prior to 21.1.12 and Xwayland prior to 23.2.5</a></h5><div></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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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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  #69762 - X11 versions of Emacs 29 on sparc fail at startup - GNU bug report logs
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  X.Org Security Advisory: Issues in X.Org X server prior to 21.1.12 and Xwayland prior to 23.2.5

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