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Update libxfont to 1.5.4 to address CVE-2017-16611
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Authored by kyrios123 on Nov 28 2017, 8:10 PM.
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Summary

Open files with O_NOFOLLOW. (CVE-2017-16611)

A non-privileged X client can instruct X server running under root to open any file by creating own directory with "fonts.dir", "fonts.alias" or any font file being a symbolic link to any other file in the system. X server will then open it. This can be issue with special files such as /dev/watchdog.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves <pyu@riseup.net>

Test Plan

Rebuild xorg-server and bdftopcf against this version

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R1923 libxfont
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