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Slackware 14.1 2014-296-01 Critical: Glibc Security Patch Overview

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2014
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent glibc updates for Slackware have been released to address significant security vulnerabilities, ensuring systems remain secure with crucial patch enhancements.
New glibc packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/glibc-2.17-i486-8_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes several security issues, and adds an extra security hardening patch from Florian Weimer. Thanks to mancha for help with tracking and backporting patches. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4424 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4412 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4237 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4788 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4458 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4043 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0475 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5119 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-6040 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/glibc-i18n-2.17-i486-8_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-profile-2.17-i486-8_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-solibs-2.17-i486-8_slack14.1.txz:

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical glibc Slackware

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 14.1:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.1 packages: 8995409d8ed617125649aaab14299f61 glibc-2.17-i486-8_slack14.1.txz 877bba4ad31eb68c7e7cce11f6aafd5b glibc-i18n-2.17-i486-8_slack14.1.txz f89a9319a1798771b26488e99f0dd1af glibc-profile-2.17-i486-8_slack14.1.txz d1756f2721cbb2955152c46ef5fab72e glibc-solibs-2.17-i486-8_slack14.1.txz c7080f6d7f309ba2905dacfa555a8115 glibc-zoneinfo-2014i-noarch-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 packages: 32904ee5d2a3177d621c4c6f2aa6e67f glibc-2.17-x86_64-8_slack14.1.txz 1bb4ddd6d4043d632e78dbf3103f2f7c glibc-i18n-2.17-x86_64-8_slack14.1.txz e6914d464f57ea493502eea4dd40044a glibc-profile-2.17-x86_64-8_slack14.1.txz 04562128e188daaad7fdab49756a22f2 glibc-solibs-2.17-x86_64-8_slack14.1.txz c7080f6d7f309ba2905dacfa555a8115 glibc-zoneinfo-2014i-noarch-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current packages: f547fe51634c852ae17cb1f6c39203e1 a/glibc-solibs-2.20-i486-1.txz c7080f6d7f309ba2905dacfa555a8115 a/glibc-zoneinfo-2014i-noarch-1.txz f9923d8006a3c03520e93608114cb7de l/glibc-2.20-i486-1.txz 658301364b68e79d53acb607cd399504 l/glibc-i18n-2.20-i486-1.txz d03947abf3d4be41f7bfb0a71bd29f35 l/glibc-profile-2.20-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: a0f46b305c27dd0c80e65cc77254bdf2 a/glibc-solibs-2.20-x86_64-1.txz c7080f6d7f309ba2905dacfa555a8115 a/glibc-zoneinfo-2014i-noarch-1.txz d673acf56308355713ac67ae68e6bd2b l/glibc-2.20-x86_64-1.txz 410918dc8bf5b7a84d1bed5b6e125ee3 l/glibc-i18n-2.20-x86_64-1.txz c023f4514cd0a672e4852986c74268e6 l/glibc-profile-2.20-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

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

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