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Gentoo: 200807-07 Normal: NX Code Execution Risk Advisory

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The NX security report details earlier security flaws identified in NX on Gentoo Linux operating environments.
NX uses code from the X.org X11 server which is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200807-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: NX: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: July 09, 2008 Bugs: #230147 ID: 200807-07

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 < 3.2.0-r3 >= 3.2.0-r3 2 net-misc/nx < 3.2.0-r2 ...

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