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Ubuntu 6.10: USN-440-1 Severe VLC Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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March 12, 2007
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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