X.Org security advisory, April 5th, 2011
root hole via rogue hostname
CVE ID: CVE-2011-0465
Overview
By crafting hostnames with shell escape characters, arbitrary commands
can be executed in a root environment when a display manager reads in
the resource database via xrdb.
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A minor release of libX11 to add support for the Sinhala keysyms required
by the recent xkb-config 2.2 release. Note that to get full support for
these keysyms you will also need to upgrade to x11proto 7.0.21 before
building the new libX11.
Alan
