My apologies if you replied to the mail quoted below; I never received one.

As far as I can tell, Red Hat's webpages have not been updated with the
corrected information.  Are there any plans to do so?

On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:30:04AM -0400, branden wrote:
> Hi Preston,
> 
> In Red Hat's recent announcement, there is the following text:
> 
> > Thanks go to Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for discovering a
> > possible symlink attack in the xkb extension initialization at server
> > startup time.
> 
> I appreciate the mention, but I cannot claim credit for having discovered
> this vulnerability.  Credit for that, as far as I know, goes to Olaf Kirch
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who announced it to the vendor-sec list.
> 
> I did, however, author the fix, which was accepted into the XFree86 source
> tree upstream and which I mailed to you.

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