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SuSE: Xorg and XFree (SUSE-SA:2008:003)

LinuxSecurity.com: The X windows system is vulnerable to several kind of vulner- abilities that are caused due to insufficient input validation. The bugs range from crashing the X server to executing arbitrary code with the privilges of the X server process.

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MKILL(8)						       The SuSE boot concept							  MKILL(8)

MKILL
Mkill - Send processes making a active mount point busy a signal SYNOPSIS
mkill [-SIG] [-u] /mnt1 [/mnt2...] mkill [-l] DESCRIPTION
mkill determines all active mount points from /proc/mounts and compares this with the specified mount points. Then mkill seeks for pro- cesses making this mount points busy. For this search only the links found in /proc/<pid>/ are used to avoid hangs on files provided by network file systems like nfs(5). The default signal is SIGTERM for termination. If a mount point is not active, that is that it is not found in /proc/mounts, mkill will do exactly nothing. OPTIONS
-<SIG> Signals can be specified either by name (e.g. -HUP, -SIGHUP) or by number (e.g. -1). -0 The special signal 0 force mkill to list all processes making the specified mount point busy. -u Perform a lazy umount on the specified mount points before sending the signal SIGTERM or SIGKILL. -l List all known signals. EXAMPLES
mkill -TERM /var This will terminate all processes accessing a seperate /var partition. mkill -HUP /dev/pts All processes using a pseudo-terminal slave will hangup. RETURN VALUE
Always success which is that zero is returned. SEE ALSO
fuser(1), proc(5), umount(8). COPYRIGHT
2008 Werner Fink, 2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Germany. AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> 3rd Berkeley Distribution Jan 31, 2008 MKILL(8)