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Gentoo: GLSA 200801-09 High Severity: X.Org X Server Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2008
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202103-15 highlights critical vulnerabilities affecting the X.Org X server and the Xfont library.
The previous version of the X.Org X server (1.3.0.0-r4) did not properly address the integer overflow vulnerability in the MIT-SHM extension (CVE-2007-6429)

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory [ERRATA UPDATE] GLSA 200801-09:03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: X.Org X server and Xfont library: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: January 20, 2008 Updated: March 05, 2008 Bugs: #204362, #208343 ID: 200801-09:03

Errata ===== The previous version of the X.Org X server (1.3.0.0-r4) did not properly address the integer overflow vulnerability in the MIT-SHM extension (CVE-2007-6429). It failed to check on Pixmaps of certain bit depths.
All users of the X.Org X server package should upgrade to x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r5.
The corrected sections appear below.
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