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-rw-r--r--perl-install/install/NEWS2
-rw-r--r--perl-install/install/steps_gtk.pm1
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/install/NEWS b/perl-install/install/NEWS
index f47148adb..e65624a97 100644
--- a/perl-install/install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/install/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+- call X with -nolisten tcp to avoid "security" issues (#18320)
+ (nb: this implies "xhost+" helper prog is not useful anymore)
- do not propose ext4dev filesystem during install (#37157)
Version 10.6.8 - 24 January 2008
diff --git a/perl-install/install/steps_gtk.pm b/perl-install/install/steps_gtk.pm
index 98cc80ac0..8d18c4d06 100644
--- a/perl-install/install/steps_gtk.pm
+++ b/perl-install/install/steps_gtk.pm
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ sub new($$) {
push @options, '-allowMouseOpenFail', '-xf86config', $f if arch() !~ /^sparc/;
push @options, 'tty7', '-s', '240';
+ push @options, '-nolisten', 'tcp';
#- old weird servers: Xsun
push @options, '-fp', '/usr/share/fonts:unscaled' if $server =~ /Xsun/;