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Ubuntu 6.10: USN-440-1 Severe VLC Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2007
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Essential security patch released for xine on Ubuntu addressing buffer overflow security flaws that impact various versions.
Moritz Jodeit discovered that the DirectShow loader of Xine did not correctly validate the size of an allocated buffer

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security advisory buffer overflow critical threat patch ubuntu xine

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-435-1 March 12, 2007

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