Hi,

I am running Mandriva 2006 x64, and wanted to do a security update for a stack overflow problem that could allow someone to hack into my system. This is the one:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/adv...KSA-2006:164-1

I went to the Control Center + Updates, and searched on xorg-x11. A handful came back, and I selected all of them (the main one had some dependencies). Some packages were pretty big, 20-30MB. Something must have gone wrong during the install, cause when I came back a few hours later, I wasn't even able to log in (unlock) to the desktop again and it gave me an error that a desktop process had to be killed. I killed this process and restarted. Now I only get to the command line prompt (no GUI). If I try to start X, I get this error:
xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6:cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory.

I have liked Mandriva up until now, but it really bothers me that my system should crash when doing an official security update!

Any suggestions on how fix kde? Can I fix it from the install DVD or maybe upgrade to 2007 (I would think the latter would work).

Thanks

The security advisory you're refering to is for Mdv 2007, not 2006.

Is urpmi configured for Mdv 2006?

Yes, I recently updated my the repositories.

You should check your /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg to be sure you didn't misconfigured the repositories with Mdv2007. Look for the 'updates' media.

No, all my repositories point to 2006.0/x86_64. I know the link I reference above point to 2007, but the same package shows up in 2006, and it reference the same error. I just checked on another machine (2006), and I see the same package. If you have 2006 installed you can verify it. I have installed many other packages without any problems, so that's not the problem.

This is the description from my other machine that's also running 2006, but 32 bit. It's NOT a 2007 problem.
Name: xorg-x11
Version: 6.9.0-5.10.20060mdk
Architecture: i586
Size: 37516 KB
Importance: security

Summary: Part of the X Window System

Reason for update: Local exploitation of an integer overflow vulnerability in the 'CIDAFM()' function in the X.Org and XFree86 X server could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the X server, typically root (CVE-2006-3739).

Local exploitation of an integer overflow vulnerability in the 'scan_cidfont()' function in the X.Org and XFree86 X server could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the X server, typically root (CVE-2006-3740).

Updated packages are patched to address this issue.

Description: If you want to install the X Window System (TM) on your machine, you'll need to install X11.

The X Window System provides the base technology for developing graphical user interfaces. Simply stated, X draws the elements of the GUI on the user's screen and builds methods for sending user interactions back to the application. X also supports remote application deployment--running an application on another computer while viewing the input/output on your machine. X is a powerful environment which supports many different applications, such as games, programming tools, graphics programs, text editors, etc.

This package contains the basic fonts, programs and documentation for an X workstation. You will also need the X11-server package, which contains the program which drives your video hardware.

In addition to installing this package, you will need to install the drakxtools package to configure your card using XFdrake. You may also need to install one of the X11 fonts packages.

And finally, if you are going to develop applications that run as X clients, you will also need to install libxorg-x11-devel.