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Slackware 12.x: 2009-345-01 Critical DoS: Gimp Package Update

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2009
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Recent updates for gimp have been made available on Slackware, targeting urgent security vulnerabilities and enhancing overall system reliability.
New gimp packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gimp-2.6.8-i486-1_slack13.0.txz: Upgraded. This fixes integer overflows in the image handling plugins that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or an application crash if a malicious image is loaded. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1570 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3909 (* 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 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/gimp-2.4.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/gimp-2.4.7-i486-2_slack12.2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/gimp-2.6.8-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches...

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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 12.1 package: 1f4e02babc22fb6ac3fc84b1c118d72b gimp-2.4.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: b7c63449db64c9d1511b2080d323ed49 gimp-2.4.7-i486-2_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware 13.0 package: b1921dfa3606ebc2ebc19a62e509dc71 gimp-2.6.8-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 0a9592c74c7de560c572e74345677343 gimp-2.6.8-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware -current package: fcf74c662164e4d9e2f1040e8d2520c6 gimp-2.6.8-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 35afac41e102725a4d10ece7e7d93366 gimp-2.6.8-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gimp-2.6.8-i486-1_slack13.0.txz