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Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04 LTS: USN-638-1 Critical: Yelp Remote Execution

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Investigate the Yelp flaw found in Ubuntu versions 7.10 and 8.04 LTS, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted URIs.
Aaron Grattafiori discovered that the Gnome Help Viewer did not handle format strings correctly when displaying certain error messages

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security advisory critical Ubuntu remote execution yelp

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-638-1 August 27, 2008

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security advisory critical Ubuntu remote execution yelp

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