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Gentoo: GLSA-200804-05 Normal: NX User-Assisted Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
NX on Gentoo Linux is susceptible to user-assisted remote code execution. Please update to reduce vulnerabilities.
NX uses code from the X.org X11 server which is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200804-05:02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: NX: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: April 06, 2008 Updated: April 06, 2008 Bugs: #210317 ID: 200804-05:02

Synopsis ======= NX uses code from the X.org X11 server which is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Background ========= 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.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/nxnode < 3.1.0-r2 >= 3.1.0-r2 2 net-misc/n...

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