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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS USN-377-1 Critical: NVIDIA Buffer Overflow Risk
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November 3, 2006
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-377-1 November 03, 2006 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15, linux-restricted
Derek Abdine discovered that the NVIDIA Xorg driver did not correctly verify the size of buffers used to render text glyphs
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