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Slackware 14.0: SSA:2013-233-03 Critical: Poppler Security Threat

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Calendar Grey August 22, 2013
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Updated poppler packages for Slackware 14.0 address a vulnerability and enhance overall system robustness.
New poppler packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/poppler-0.20.2-i486-2_slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. Sanitize error messages to remove escape sequences that could be used to exploit vulnerable terminal emulators. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2142 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical slackware software fix poppler

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 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/poppler-0.20.2-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/poppler-0.20.2-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: d942a0c604b8993fbb61e9d4998b45b1 poppler-0.20.2-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 47815fae9ed706eb9ff3ca0074713175 poppler-0.20.2-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 95eea9252862f96a3005bbbe0b0da637 l/poppler-0.24.0-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a78aedabb80d5772cae65db530cd2a74 l/poppler-0.24.0-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory security issue critical slackware software fix poppler

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg poppler-0.20.2-i486-2_slack14.0.txz