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  1. Bug #60448
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 60448

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : SRU Proposal: Limit .xsession-errors file size to prevent disk space DoS

Hi Matt,

I propose to fix https://launchpad.net/bugs/60448 for dapper.

Impact: if an application goes wild and dumps large amounts of logging
        to ~/.xsession-errors, there is nothing to clean up this file
 and limit its size.

Edgy fix: http://librarian.launchpad.net/4679751/xorg.60448.debdiff
        (xorg 1:7.1.1ubuntu2, Oct 5)
 Xsession checks if the file is > 0.5 MB and if so, only keeps
 the last 0.5 MB of data.

Proposed dapper fix: http://librarian.launchpad.net/4937364/xinit.60448.diff
 Very same patch (just different package, the file has moved)

This does not affect systems using gdm, since gdm uses its own
Xsession script which completely removes the file. I tested the fix on
a clean Dapper with using xdm, for both cases (small and large file).

Thanks,

Martin