Hi,

thanks for your answer.


Regarding the "broken" x11-users-list simply visit 
https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/x11-users and try to register. I tried 
multiple mail addresses and passwords (also this mail address) and always got 
an error after clicking onto subscribe. I just tried it again, the problem 
still seems to be present.


Kind regards,


Nils Olbert

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Von: Xquartz-dev <xquartz-dev-boun...@lists.macosforge.org> im Auftrag von 
Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jerem...@apple.com>
Gesendet: Montag, 9. März 2020 00:38:36
An: Developer talk about Xquartz
Betreff: Re: [Xquartz-dev] Is XQuartz safe to use?



On Mar 8, 2020, at 07:03, Olbert, Nils 
<i17...@hb.dhbw-stuttgart.de<mailto:i17...@hb.dhbw-stuttgart.de>> wrote:


Hello,

I am not completely sure if this is the right mailing list for asking this 
question, but since the x11-users list seems to be broken (you cannot register 
as a subscriber (results in a "We're sorry, we hit a bug!"-Error)

Can you point me to the link you are using?  I can file a ticket to look into 
it.

, nor seem incoming messages to be processed (I sent this question to that list 
before in early February)), I am gonna ask it here:

There are messages on the list from February.

<mailto:x11-us...@lists.apple.com>
The last version of XQuartz available for download is from 2016.

Yeah, that's the last time I had any free time to package everything up into a 
release, and nobody has stepped up to take that over.  If you want the latest 
versions, I suggest using MacPorts to install it.

Since then, some serious security vulnerabilities has been spotted in X, f.e. 
CVE-2017-10972 or https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=x.org .
Is XQuartz immune to all of them or must installing XQuartz be considered as a 
security issue?

I'm not aware of any that I'd consider extremely alarming.  Most of the 
vulnerabilities that I recall were around privilege escalation to root because 
Xorg runs as root on other platforms.  Since the server runs as the user on 
macOS, that's not as big a concern.


Kind regards,
Nils Olbert


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