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Slackware 14.0: SSA:2013-260-01 Critical: Glibc Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2013
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Latest glibc updates for Slackware address severe vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows and potential system failures.
New glibc packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/glibc-2.15-i486-8_slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to fix integer overflows in pvalloc, valloc, and posix_memalign/memalign/aligned_alloc. Thanks to mancha for the backported patch. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2013-4332 (* Security fix *) Also, as long as these packages were being respun anyway, I added a patch to fix the check for AVX opcodes. This was causing crashes on Xen. Thanks to Dale Gallagher. patches/packages/glibc-i18n-2.15-i486-8_slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-profile-2.15-i486-8_slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-solibs-2.15-i486-8_slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-zoneinfo-2013d_2013d-noarch-8_slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt.

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 packages for Slackware 13.0:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated packages for Slackware 13.1:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated packages for Slackware 13.37:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated packages for Slackware 14.0:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.0 packages: f72bcb4c462216868f98355bebf25e0b glibc-2.9-i486-6_slack13.0.txz 4a993fa5bc0003afd9703d739b3d313e glibc-i18n-2.9-i486-6_slack13.0.txz db538eadc947ae69704ff845616ae28e glibc-profile-2.9-i486-6_slack13.0.txz 381160ccd5381833528f40bb312c191d glibc-solibs-2.9-i486-6_slack13.0.txz a3cc7d4ac6074cd1c8df9c1a48036218 glibc-zoneinfo-2013d-noarch-6_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 packages: 81ea98094df23b1b1cf96a5185f5cb6d glibc-2.9-x86_64-6_slack13.0.txz 24ddc9bdb3e876861cc4bb35b86cef11 glibc-i18n-2.9-x86_64-6_slack13.0.txz 29709146aa105df251ed33c8ea8972b5 glibc-profile-2.9-x86_64-6_slack13.0.txz 0bb71ebaae27e6f2d4db3fe2163cfdaf glibc-solibs-2.9-x86_64-6_slack13.0.txz 595a2ebf16d6087c236bc72da279f00d glibc-zoneinfo-2013d-noarch-6_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 packages: 738ce6cf5b26081139f444eff1a9f7f9 glibc-2.11.1-i486-8_slack13.1.txz 2ec63a82a65ab1111d3bba67cb10e5c9 glibc-i18n-2.11.1-i486-8_slack13.1.txz 98373f51bfcb1f588d9cd1bffade2d7a glibc-profile-2.11.1-i486-8_slack13.1.txz 2005c3c19d6d03213363453268b14de2 glibc-solibs-2.11.1-i486-8_slack13.1.txz 89536b53379592943df9dbe46e266b7c glibc-zoneinfo-2013d-noarch-8_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 packages: 0390ec9ddd0ff1fcbc7134a3b3d2daee glibc-2.11.1-x86_64-8_slack13.1.txz c8f7b339a812b0039e0cb2441cd68c1a glibc-i18n-2.11.1-x86_64-8_slack13.1.txz 6121e45f9533cea5a27ca0ab4cb8292a glibc-profile-2.11.1-x86_64-8_slack13.1.txz d7b94439112f6ad074c13c18044fee2e glibc-solibs-2.11.1-x86_64-8_slack13.1.txz 270b96b2063917b928e35a6e07c666f4 glibc-zoneinfo-2013d-noarch-8_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 packages: 84ff77a3d3bce905cfacf084ee4f0182 glibc-2.13-i486-7_slack13.37.txz 2ea633e05f47c22a4d3a7ba6841d4225 glibc-i18n-2.13-i486-7_slack13.37.txz da8bc931a35cf319be12dc5a33eab09f glibc-profile-2.13-i486-7_slack13.37.txz 1f355160bd4d482c61520142e4719676 glibc-solibs-2.13-i486-7_slack13.37.txz 84407908cbbc5c2a6195a2c20f6bebb7 glibc-zoneinfo-2013d-noarch-7_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 packages: 2aa58efa3b5f27499639a4b1664679c3 glibc-2.13-x86_64-7_slack13.37.txz cdf92b2cc502a83a0aa84ae281706c49 glibc-i18n-2.13-x86_64-7_slack13.37.txz 078e74d6d708251db654d411e9bbfabb glibc-profile-2.13-x86_64-7_slack13.37.txz 026373a85ceeb627502ea18554c96f0f glibc-solibs-2.13-x86_64-7_slack13.37.txz a3893de72b3db44b466e1818425a7a6b glibc-zoneinfo-2013d-noarch-7_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 packages: db03639f26986de6034fd52325f98de4 glibc-2.15-i486-8_slack14.0.txz bd497d03760326c0fa9e4fc43a27a502 glibc-i18n-2.15-i486-8_slack14.0.txz e941e2734ea82ef4d0cb73515fd1827f glibc-profile-2.15-i486-8_slack14.0.txz f4d9e81cdcc4765327efe461f89ea9f0 glibc-solibs-2.15-i486-8_slack14.0.txz 31ad7fcc72b371ae417b9cf3c2f438d0 glibc-zoneinfo-2013d_2013d-noarch-8_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 packages: 7abe85353e8b98fe8291fc8f8ad9b125 glibc-2.15-x86_64-8_slack14.0.txz 4f3be6597742c157477c66c807a29d10 glibc-i18n-2.15-x86_64-8_slack14.0.txz 0ddb99bf69d02fa0e1f4d6bc8205e932 glibc-profile-2.15-x86_64-8_slack14.0.txz 36abbe1ff17d2bb8d4039bd6e231c2a2 glibc-solibs-2.15-x86_64-8_slack14.0.txz 4934f5af4b76124d9a6bf56eecd89d10 glibc-zoneinfo-2013d_2013d-noarch-8_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: 4e60f81f1f275a828ead924b75b4441a a/glibc-solibs-2.17-i486-7.txz 9d50aa8be680e53aad02b2b2143dd88b a/glibc-zoneinfo-2013d-noarch-7.txz 0dc2cf4214ea5af65baad8d3ab1b030c l/glibc-2.17-i486-7.txz 777d63f17c7774e66b9c624754f626cd l/glibc-i18n-2.17-i486-7.txz 1c5e9dccf4d3432b08ebd3ca5ec37d23 l/glibc-profile-2.17-i486-7.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: ba1b1df4f0e636bf57347408bd822ac2 a/glibc-solibs-2.17-x86_64-7.txz 03caa4a39e5f2cb97fcf3d50a6b75437 a/glibc-zoneinfo-2013d-noarch-7.txz 373879aac032473515c786fc9ea41b27 l/glibc-2.17-x86_64-7.txz 821cb9497bb6219fb905bfa3696418e1 l/glibc-i18n-2.17-x86_64-7.txz f15721f51c939f32cdd5d48c59ef7fb1 l/glibc-profile-2.17-x86_64-7.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg glibc-*.txz

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