Slackware 15.0 Info-Zip Null Reference Issue Resolution SSA-2026-093-01
slackware
April 3, 2026
New infozip 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/infozip-6.0-i586-8_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: Improper handling of Unicode strings can lead to a null pointer dereference. The conversion of a wide string to a local string leads to an of out-of-bounds write. Thanks to pbslxw for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4217 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0529 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0530 (* Security fix *)
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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/infozip-6.0-i586-8_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/infozip-6.0-x86_64-8_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/a/infozip-6.0-i686-8.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/a/infozip-6.0-x86_64-8.txz
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 15.0 package:
4cafad94e2466073f4a075a104edf0be infozip-6.0-i586-8_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
63a6304f58b5e3117f904feb666dca43 infozip-6.0-x86_64-8_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
ed1f4bef97c67dc7cb64bc2e7e277a43 a/infozip-6.0-i686-8.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
94f115066f8a09ef5fbda6b5a8673597 a/infozip-6.0-x86_64-8.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg infozip-6.0-i586-8_slack15.0.txz
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