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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-15 High Severity: NX 2.1 Integer Overflow Risk Alert

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2007
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NX version 2.1 is vulnerable due to a user-triggered integer overflow which may result in the execution of arbitrary code. Please examine the specifics of this issue.
NX in the 2.1 series uses XFree86 4.3 code which is prone to an integer overflow vulnerability.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200710-09
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: NX 2.1: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
      Date: October 09, 2007
      Bugs: #192712
        ID: 200710-09


Synopsis
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NX in the 2.1 series uses XFree86 4.3 code which is prone to an integer
overflow vulnerability.

Background
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NoMachine's NX establishes remote connections to X11 desktops over
small bandwidth links. NX and NX Node are the compression core
libraries, whereas NX is used by FreeNX and NX Node by the binary-only
NX servers.

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