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Ubuntu: USN-616-1 Critical Memory Exposure Risk In X.org

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Calendar Grey June 13, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu advisory USN-617-1 pertains to a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could permit information leakage by users with valid credentials.

It was discovered that the MIT-SHM extension of X.org did not correctly validate the location of memory during an image copy

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security advisory critical Ubuntu X.org memory exposure authenticated attack

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security advisory critical Ubuntu X.org memory exposure authenticated attack

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