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Slackware 12.0: SSA:2008-089-03 critical: gstreamer RTSP issue

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2008
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to xine-lib packages for Slackware resolve critical vulnerabilities. Update promptly to strengthen your system's defenses.
New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xine-lib-1.1.11-i686-1_slack12.0.tgz: Earlier versions of xine-lib suffer from an array index bug that may have security implications if a malicious RTSP stream is played. Playback of other media formats is not affected. If you use RTSP, you should probably upgrade xine-lib. For more information on the security issue, please see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0073 (* Security fix *)

Where Find New Packages

Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
Updated package for Slackware 10.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 10.0 package: 6b92de022505be8325e7e4abcc0f01de xine-lib-1.1.11-i686-1_slack10.0.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package: df802bf3a66c1212953600a24f1dba49 xine-lib-1.1.11-i686-1_slack10.1.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package: 6e4306bbc8ed6280f33883097296fb76 xine-lib-1.1.11-i686-1_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware 11.0 package: 012c8ad12a1456e31f9bf299b878b19b xine-lib-1.1.11-i686-1_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware 12.0 package: 04dfd67cfc12258f05b2e01612494572 xine-lib-1.1.11-i686-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware -current package: db569bcc52fffaa132b16d967ddfe495 xine-lib-1.1.11-i686-1.tgz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg xine-lib-1.1.11-i686-1_slack12.0.tgz

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