Re: Is compatibility for old aout binaries broken?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:05:20AM -0800, Jeremy Lea wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:52:23AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > Nope.  This is a box that was a virgin install of 5-CURRENT a month ago.
> > I had to install the compat20 and compat21 dists, along with doing a
> > ``pkg_add -r XFree86-aoutlibs''.  The Tk is 8.0.5.
> 
> The XFree86-aoutlibs are especially from XFree86-3.3.3.  This was
> because of unstable behaviour from Netscape with later aout libs.
> 
> They are obtained from:
> ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.3/binaries/FreeBSD-2.2.x/Xbin.tgz

Argh. I'm going to have to mark that port FORBIDDEN, then, because old
versions of the X libraries have remote vulnerabilities.

Kris

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