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Slackware: SSA:2006-207-02 Critical: X11 Security Update

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2006
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Recent x11 updates resolve security vulnerabilities in Slackware versions 10.2 and -current, while also providing vital enhancements for related libraries.
New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/x11-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz: Patched some more possible linux 2.6.x setuid() related bugs: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2006-June/000100.html Patched CVE-2006-1861 linux 2.6.x setuid() related bugs in freetype2. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/x11-devel-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz: Patched as above. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/x11-xdmx-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/x11-xnest-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/x11-xvfb-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz: Rebuilt.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix important Slackware X11 freetype fontconfig

Where Find New Packages

HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional 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 packages for Slackware 10.2:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:

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Slackware 10.2 packages: 0cf87318d76c36906dcd5fb5bc718444 x11-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz bea4188bde1da241595e91bae2c76c11 x11-devel-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz 3286ca1e2dd171577927a31c1a327601 x11-xdmx-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz 27eca3d63e056ac4553c0196161405f4 x11-xnest-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz e208de9bbe2a830b6f161e0ae3301d3b x11-xvfb-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware -current packages: 3cfe905c595a7ff72810834cba17fb40 fontconfig-2.2.3-i486-1.tgz d796910b7b481086b9569488a07ca257 freetype-2.1.9-i486-1.tgz abec810fe0662c05b527e815a164b29d x11-6.9.0-i486-5.tgz dd3d53f59bdd24a2df459cd086659887 x11-devel-6.9.0-i486-5.tgz d6d7c360b0b6e3d344bbab361db7a71c x11-xdmx-6.9.0-i486-5.tgz 0de6e761a401623fd571c97601d08645 x11-xnest-6.9.0-i486-5.tgz 73a12a31308ed5af5eddd22a67904736 x11-xvfb-6.9.0-i486-5.tgz

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security advisory security fix important Slackware X11 freetype fontconfig

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg x11-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz \ x11-devel-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz \ x11-xdmx-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz \ x11-xnest-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz \ x11-xvfb-6.8.2-i486-6_slack10.2.tgz