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Slackware 14.1: SSA:2014-356-03 Critical: Xorg-Server Security Fix

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2014
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Fresh xorg-server installations for Slackware released to tackle urgent vulnerabilities and enhance functionalities.
New xorg-server 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/xorg-server-1.14.3-i486-3_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes many security issues discovered by Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8091 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8092 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8093 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8094 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8095 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8096 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8097 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8098 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8099 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8100 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8101 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8102 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8103 (* Security fix

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software patch security fix slackware system security xorg-server

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: 69ec69426bc6245c24da949ca1b21069 xorg-server-1.14.3-i486-3_slack14.1.txz 354ad2193aea7f83bb4966ab4471696c xorg-server-xephyr-1.14.3-i486-3_slack14.1.txz b5ad5534e780a7e837c491241b093ea5 xorg-server-xnest-1.14.3-i486-3_slack14.1.txz c64c23d45caa9edb868f212fed6eacf4 xorg-server-xvfb-1.14.3-i486-3_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 packages: a9e968f64a6a681958aa125a0303c04c xorg-server-1.14.3-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz b4cbb9d7c91188e0302f701fdac46d3b xorg-server-xephyr-1.14.3-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz 14b8b255b7b7f5e02754b0f55734a749 xorg-server-xnest-1.14.3-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz d03987b098537ce2e76de10fcc4b9114 xorg-server-xvfb-1.14.3-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current packages: cebde7179b805f314b88f6346adac006 x/xorg-server-1.15.2-i486-3.txz e7e2ebf5ddf17b0e614544ae5866b4c7 x/xorg-server-xephyr-1.15.2-i486-3.txz 2649499068f72265f7a750c1521f6c0c x/xorg-server-xnest-1.15.2-i486-3.txz 0d77ba1ce26faf0c6d6fbd5d677b45b3 x/xorg-server-xvfb-1.15.2-i486-3.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 93f8441244f662fad6e98fb41764bba7 x/xorg-server-1.15.2-x86_64-3.txz 4b47e4c0ebc531751f05844d2235cdd2 x/xorg-server-xephyr-1.15.2-x86_64-3.txz bca73b287db2f52b516cf758b744ffc4 x/xorg-server-xnest-1.15.2-x86_64-3.txz dfa6eff2fa1adacd4d8ce2bc43bade80 x/xorg-server-xvfb-1.15.2-x86_64-3.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software patch security fix slackware system security xorg-server

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Installation Instructions

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

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