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Slackware: SSA:2006-045-05 Moderate: Kdelibs Heap Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2006
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to kdelibs address a critical heap overflow flaw in Slackware systems, enhancing overall system security.
New kdelibs packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 to fix a security issue with kjs

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/kdelibs-3.4.2-i486-2.tgz: Patched a heap overflow vulnerability in kjs, the JavaScript interpreter engine used by Konqueror and other parts of KDE. For more information, see: https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060119-1.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0019 (* Security fix *)

Where Find New Packages

Updated package for Slackware 10.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/kdelibs-3.2.3-i486-3.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patches/packages/kdelibs-3.3.2-i486-3.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages/kdelibs-3.4.2-i486-2.tgz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 10.0 package: e16976b57ea2e41520ebd986eba3aab4 kdelibs-3.2.3-i486-3.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package: 9d04a303202670c6698d4c8582bdf7b2 kdelibs-3.3.2-i486-3.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package: 903e2dc4ca1882e021a7223bf4a25d0c kdelibs-3.4.2-i486-2.tgz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg kdelibs-3.4.2-i486-2.tgz

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