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Slackware 15.0 gnutls Important Security Fix CVE-2026-1584

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Calendar Grey February 11, 2026
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated gnutls packages for Slackware addressing critical security issues and performance improvements.
New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-3.8.12-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: libgnutls: Fix NULL pointer dereference in PSK binder verification. libgnutls: Fix name constraint processing performance issue. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-1584 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14831 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue remote access important slackware gnutls

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/gnutls-3.8.12-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/gnutls-3.8.12-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/gnutls-3.8.12-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/gnutls-3.8.12-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 4e81d2596ad3000671543718d61a66ae gnutls-3.8.12-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: c895aba134633e0b9404f4908cbe68ad gnutls-3.8.12-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 9ee8b01111c6a81dc1c802f06f901a85 n/gnutls-3.8.12-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 6b2fcae71857d7e27b1e150629bc04d4 n/gnutls-3.8.12-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue remote access important slackware gnutls

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gnutls-3.8.12-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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