Slackware 14.1: SSA:2015-111-13 Critical: Qt DoS Exploit Risk
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April 22, 2015
New qt 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/qt-4.8.6-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed issues with BMP, ICO, and GIF handling that could lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code when processing malformed images. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0295 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1858 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1859 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1860 (* Security fix *)
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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 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.1 package:
fad30e220cfcfae0bc98d50acb8009d0 qt-4.8.6-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
db1a7d75f353287bac779e53219fb705 qt-4.8.6-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
c42f919505996562f0ab02a5d13975d0 l/qt-4.8.6-i486-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
195d68b1606883541b174130fc67acd3 l/qt-4.8.6-x86_64-2.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg qt-4.8.6-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
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