Slackware 10.2 X11 Update 2006-259-01 Critical Overflow Issue
slackware
September 17, 2006
New x11 (X.Org) packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and -current to fix security issues due to overflows in font parsing
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/x11-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz:i Fixed an overflow in CID encoded Type1 font parsing. For further reference, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3739 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3740 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/x11-devel-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz: Recompiled. patches/packages/x11-xdmx-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz: Recompiled. patches/packages/x11-xnest-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz: Recompiled. patches/packages/x11-xvfb-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz: Recompiled.
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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 package for Slackware 10.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 10.2 package:
a9316c321d186c6f9550b1f29ccc1501 x11-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz
20d998bce33e744ffd037d8190a42c18 x11-devel-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz
0a3327d025d6af59f54de9ac63404c97 x11-xdmx-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz
e236495f4e11a246b0027f6cfb5703d2 x11-xnest-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz
12a58e8efcdd6807b3d366fbcf9d79e4 x11-xvfb-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware -current package:
59bf0501ce46391197ad571c9341c105 x11-6.9.0-i486-11.tgz
14c95b5eab916883a313c34db4fdb38a x11-devel-6.9.0-i486-11.tgz
2d19e8fe89b314fe93baed7c62d0a1cb x11-xdmx-6.9.0-i486-11.tgz
54369c52653384d0ff4310b56bd67c96 x11-xnest-6.9.0-i486-11.tgz
c8795b535a8c38cc4832dbbb5e4aa711 x11-xvfb-6.9.0-i486-11.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg x11-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz x11-devel-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz x11-xdmx-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz x11-xnest-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz x11-xvfb-6.8.2-i486-7_slack10.2.tgz
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