Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 677
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 677

Slackware 13.1 SSA:2011-101-02 Critical: Kdelibs DoS Fix

slackware
Calendar Grey April 11, 2011
Dist Slackware Esm H88
An updated kdelibs package for Slackware 13.1 addresses a serious security vulnerability listed under CVE-2011-1168.
A new kdelibs package is available for Slackware 13.1 to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/kdelibs-4.4.3-i486-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched CVE-2011-1168. For more information, see: https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20110411-1.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1168 (* Security fix *) Where to find the new package: 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 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/kdelibs-4.4.3-i486-2_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64

Read the Full Advisory

Where Find New Packages

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.1 package: f63e406339bcd61df6b2e972f6e60a15 kdelibs-4.4.3-i486-2_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: c469e425ac93330cba15bd1fb2f34af2 kdelibs-4.4.3-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg kdelibs-4.4.3-i486-2_slack13.1.txz

Related News

Your message here