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Several security issues were fixed in libxt.
Software Description:
- libxt: X11 toolkit intrinsics library
Details:
Ilja van Sprundel discovered multiple security issues in various X.org
libraries and components. An attacker could use these issues to cause
applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 13.04: libxt6 1:1.1.3-1ubuntu0.13.04.1 Ubuntu 12.10: libxt6 1:1.1.3-1ubuntu0.12.10.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libxt6 1:1.1.1-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: libxt6 1:1.0.7-1ubuntu0.1 After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1865-1
CVE-2013-2002, CVE-2013-2005
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