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authorBrian Cameron <bcameron@src.gnome.org>2006-12-13 18:16:13 +0000
committerBrian Cameron <bcameron@src.gnome.org>2006-12-13 18:16:13 +0000
commit983713d3c1afcf8adaac698445bd61794d836475 (patch)
tree6805487d4870d5cfe7b892a91ae4d3356ad38a79
parent94862571cad5218684b5923fb34f7170b8943049 (diff)
downloadgdm-983713d3c1afcf8adaac698445bd61794d836475.tar.gz
Add NEWS for 2.14.11 and 2.16.4 release.
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@@ -164,6 +164,23 @@ Ahh news...
Raphael Higino, Priit Laes, \303\205smund Skj\303\246veland,
Ivar Smolin)
+2.16.4 Stuff:
+
+- Fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID
+ CVE-2006-6105. This fixes a problem where a user can
+ enter strings like "%08x" into the gdmchooser "Add"j
+ host button and print out memory. (Brian Cameron)
+
+- Fix for TryExec check in gdmsession to make sure that any
+ arguments are not passed to g_find_program_in_path since
+ this causes the function to say it is not executable.
+ (Brian Cameron)
+
+- Translation updates (Runa Bhattacharjee, Josep Puigdemont
+ i Casamaj\303\263, Laurent Dhima, I. Felix, David Lodge,
+ Ani Peter, Rajesh Ranjan, Clytie Siddall, Vincent van
+ Adrighem)
+
2.16.3 Stuff:
- Now support altfile[n] propery to cater for alternative
@@ -500,6 +517,28 @@ Ahh news...
pam-error-icon, and startover greeter types, and better info about PAM.
(Brian Cameron)
+2.14.11 stuff:
+
+- Fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID
+ CVE-2006-6105. This fixes a problem where a user can
+ enter strings like "%08x" into the gdmchooser "Add"j
+ host button and print out memory. (Brian Cameron)
+
+- Set authdir to NULL after freeing to avoid accessing an invalid
+ pointer. Fixes bug #359831. (Amnon Aaronsohn)
+
+- Fix custom lists so that focus does not ever leave the
+ username/password entry field. (Brian Cameron)
+
+- Remove calls to syslog/malloc that are called from inside signal
+ handlers, since they are not safe. (Ray Strode)
+
+- The configure script now supports the Xserver installed in
+ /usr/bin/Xorg. (Ray Strode)
+
+- Fix error message that gets printed when you run GDM
+ as non-root user. (Brian Cameron)
+
2.14.10 stuff:
- Fix so that GDM does not save the Failsafe GNOME or Xterm