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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200710-09">
+ <title>NX 2.1: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ NX in the 2.1 series uses XFree86 4.3 code which is prone to an integer
+ overflow vulnerability.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">nx, nxnode</product>
+ <announced>2007-10-09</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-10-09</revised>
+ <bug>192712</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-misc/nx" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.0.0</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.0</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ <package name="net-misc/nxnode" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.0.0-r3</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.0-r3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ NoMachine's NX establishes remote connections to X11 desktops over
+ small bandwidth links. NX and NX Node are the compression core
+ libraries, whereas NX is used by FreeNX and NX Node by the binary-only
+ NX servers.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Chris Evans reported an integer overflow within the FreeType PCF font
+ file parser (CVE-2006-1861). NX and NX Node are vulnerable to this due
+ to shipping XFree86 4.3.0, which includes the vulnerable FreeType code.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could exploit these integer overflows by enticing a
+ user to load a specially crafted PCF font file which might lead to the
+ execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user on the
+ machine running the NX server.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All NX users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/nx-3.0.0"</code>
+ <p>
+ All NX Node users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/nxnode-3.0.0-r3"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1861">CVE-2006-1861</uri>
+ <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-02.xml">GLSA 200607-02</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-09-20T13:00:55Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-09-20T13:01:53Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-10-02T16:18:36Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>