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

On Mar 8, 2020, at 07:03, Olbert, Nils <i17026@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.

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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