Early this morning, Heiko Oberdiek wrote on this list: >> I detected a severe documentation bug of inputenc.dtx: >> a closing curly brace is in the wrong line, leading to an error. By a curious coincidence, this news story appeared about the same time (dated yesterday, but posted today): http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,111149,00.html The relevant parts of the story are these: >> ... >> Linux GUI holed by missing bracket >> News Story by Matthew Broersma >> >> MAY 04, 2006 (TECHWORLD.COM) - A bug-hunt funded by the >> U.S. government has tracked down a serious security flaw in Linux's X >> Window System, caused by a missing parenthesis. >> ... >> >> The bug was found in versions X11R6.9.0 and X11R7.0.0, the first major >> X Window releases in a decade, issued in December 2005. It was because >> of a missing parenthesis in the software that checks a user's ID, >> according to Coverity. Despite the seeming triviality of the mistake, >> it allowed local users to execute code with root privileges, the >> company said. The bug was fixed within a week. >> ... Heh heh... :^) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: [log in to unmask] - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------