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Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10 - USN-885-1: LibThai Remote Code Exec

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Calendar Grey January 18, 2010
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Enhance libthai components to address security hazards stemming from a newly identified weakness that allows for potential remote code execution.
Tim Starling discovered that LibThai did not correctly handle long strings

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