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Ubuntu: USN-448-1 Critical: Xorg Memory Handling Code Execution

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Calendar Grey April 3, 2007
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Address Xorg security issues affecting various Ubuntu versions with urgent patches to avert unauthorized code execution.

Sean Larsson of iDefense Labs discovered that the MISC-XC extension of Xorg did not correctly verify the size of allocated memory

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