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Slackware 12.1: 2012-228-01 Moderate: T1lib Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2012
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Fresh t1lib updates for Slackware tackling concerns such as buffer overflows and pointer errors have been released. Upgrade today!
New t1lib packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/t1lib-5.1.2-i486-3_slack13.37.txz: Rebuilt. Patched various overflows, crashes, and pointer bugs. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2642 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-0764 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1552 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1553 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1554 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory software patch security fix slackware t1lib

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating 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/t1lib-5.1.2-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/t1lib-5.1.2-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/t1lib-5.1.2-i486-2_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/t1lib-5.1.2-x86_64-2_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/t1lib-5.1.2-i486-2_slack13.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1: ftp:...

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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 12.1 package: b4a19acb6abc371cecd3555b2e8d794a t1lib-5.1.2-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: e8cbabaf0a83b81dccbe67862e0b7f0a t1lib-5.1.2-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware 13.0 package: aef159285fb637413ca0d7e59adf92da t1lib-5.1.2-i486-2_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: c014687cf4154b42ec66fb6fc2ac3e7e t1lib-5.1.2-x86_64-2_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 2e14125a3c4f46811c7ee918ecdba79d t1lib-5.1.2-i486-2_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 7fd0cb7d16dee8b5b5757ac93258e838 t1lib-5.1.2-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: eab121d3ac1bb128efff380942609fd4 t1lib-5.1.2-i486-3_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 937da04c0f0f19812c440be48bf169ca t1lib-5.1.2-x86_64-3_slack13.37.txz
Slackware -current package: 9b6796f3e27952172236425a7031cb58 l/t1lib-5.1.2-i486-3.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 6942fb6f9f78b8e3cc4a1c77469a2512 l/t1lib-5.1.2-x86_64-3.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory software patch security fix slackware t1lib

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg t1lib-5.1.2-i486-3_slack13.37.txz