Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.67422
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:095 (libxext)
Summary:	Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:095 (libxext)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to libxext announced via advisory MDVSA-2010:095. A vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in libxext: There's a race condition in libXext that causes apps that use the X shared memory extensions to occasionally crash. Packages for 2008.0 and 2009.0 are provided due to the Extended Maintenance Program for those products. The corrected packages solves this problem. Affected: 2008.0, 2009.0, 2009.1, 2010.0 Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2010:095 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2009-October/005102.html http://crbug.com/25324 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXext/commit/?id=956fd30e1046e5779ac0b6c07ec4f0e87250869a Risk factor : High
Copyright	Copyright (c) 2010 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com

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