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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS USN-571-2 Critical: Xorg Server Access Issue

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Urgent notice regarding Ubuntu's X.org vulnerability causing memory overflow issues resulting in unauthorized root privileges. Users are urged to upgrade without delay.
Multiple overflows were discovered in the XFree86-Misc, XInput-Misc, TOG-CUP, EVI, and MIT-SHM extensions which did not correctly validate function arguments

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-571-2 January 19, 2008

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