Submitted By: Dan Nicholson <dnicholson at linuxfromscratch dot org>
Date: 2006-08-05
Initial Package Version: 1.0.1
Origin: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.1/patches/
Upstream Status: Applied
Description: Fixes a security vulnerability. See the following advisory:
    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-June/016146.html

diff -pNur libX11-1.0.1.orig/src/xlibi18n/lcFile.c libX11-1.0.1/src/xlibi18n/lcFile.c
--- libX11-1.0.1.orig/src/xlibi18n/lcFile.c	2006-05-12 18:46:51.000000000 +0000
+++ libX11-1.0.1/src/xlibi18n/lcFile.c	2006-08-05 16:25:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -269,7 +269,11 @@ xlocaledir(
 	    if (seteuid(0) != 0) {
 		priv = 0;
 	    } else {
-		seteuid(oldeuid);
+		if (seteuid(oldeuid) == -1) {
+		    /* XXX ouch, coudn't get back to original uid 
+		     what can we do ??? */
+		    _exit(127);
+		}
 		priv = 1;
 	    }
 #endif