Slackware: 2006-123-01 Critical: Xorg Server Overflow Code Execution

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/x11-6.8.2-i486-5.tgz: Patched with x11r6.9.0-mitri.diff and recompiled. A typo in the X render extension allows an X client to crash the server and possibly to execute arbitrary code as the X server user (typically this is "root".) The CVE entry for this issue may be found here: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-1526 The advisory from X.Org may be found here: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-May/015136.html (* Security fix *) patches/packages/x11-devel-6.8.2-i486-5.tgz: Patched and recompiled libXrender. (* Security fix *)