xfstt is an X font server for TrueType fonts. If it's feeding garbage and
the X server isn't sanity checking fonts it receives from a font server,
then it could conceivably result in an X server crash.
| OTOH, if xfstt runs as root and directly accesses I/O ports,
+--->8
It shouldn't need to run as root, it shouldn't be touching I/O ports at all.
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