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SSA-2006-259-01 x11

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2006-259-01 x11

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

New x11 (X.Org) packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and -current to
fix security issues due to overflows in font parsing.

More details about this issue may be found in the Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3739
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3740

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Michel Arboi

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