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Ubuntu 6.10 USN-370-1 Critical: Screen Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey November 1, 2006
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Debian Security Alert flagged an issue related to memory management in image processing that may pose potential threats.
cstone and Rich Felker discovered a programming error in the UTF8 string handling code of "screen" leading to a denial of service

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu programming error screen UTF8 string

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-370-1 October 31, 2006

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu programming error screen UTF8 string

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