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Ubuntu 6.10: USN-379-1 Critical: texinfo Buffer Overflow Issue
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November 9, 2006
Important security advisory about texinfo flaw with potential buffer overflow threats for code execution affecting Ubuntu users.
Miloslav Trmac discovered a buffer overflow in texinfo's index processor
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