Slackware 12.0: 2007-337-02 Urgent: Security Flaw in Cairo PNG Handling
slackware
December 4, 2007
New cairo packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/cairo-1.4.12-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz: Upgraded to cairo-1.4.12. This fixes a possible security risk when decoding PNG files that may have been maliciously tampered with: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5503 (* Security fix *)
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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
directly 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 11.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/cairo-1.4.12-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/cairo-1.4.12-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 11.0 package:
d3185d684496dde3a0031be467844405 cairo-1.4.12-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware 12.0 package:
2d27eb33c8518cd4b4a59464c074acbe cairo-1.4.12-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware -current package:
31e905277640285624fae188da4e8318 cairo-1.4.12-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg cairo-1.4.12-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
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