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Slackware 14.1: 2015-244-01 Critical: Gdk-Pixbuf2 Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2015
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Recent gdk-pixbuf2 updates for Slackware tackle a critical heap overflow flaw, which could result in unauthorized code execution.
New gdk-pixbuf2 packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gdk-pixbuf2-2.28.2-i486-2_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Gustavo Grieco discovered a heap overflow in the processing of BMP images which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image is opened. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4491 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical code execution package update slackware heap overflow gdk-pixbuf2

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 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/gdk-pixbuf2-2.23.3-i486-2_slack13.37.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/gdk-pixbuf2-2.23.3-x86_64-2_slack13.37.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/gdk-pixbuf2-2.26.1-i486-3_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/gdk-pixbuf2-2.26.1-x86_64-3_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/gdk-pixbuf2-2.28.2-i486-2_slack14.1...

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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.37 package: 024660dd36a58ffa0793aeb1396e57c7 gdk-pixbuf2-2.23.3-i486-2_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: d9db7b242d5e68f6032f80af8359563d gdk-pixbuf2-2.23.3-x86_64-2_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 63d1deaa9e336c09c23025b4d8f8b545 gdk-pixbuf2-2.26.1-i486-3_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: c2c2e3211a590b125d9e1e1c61e243ed gdk-pixbuf2-2.26.1-x86_64-3_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 0e83c834301e53e29bf47a5d6818769d gdk-pixbuf2-2.28.2-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: fcc65f4ec956dcc34f7f378e272e600d gdk-pixbuf2-2.28.2-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 41baa15dd4e8a2b9527d7582aa2902d8 l/gdk-pixbuf2-2.31.7-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 35b915dd5a87fec81db379e07652e74a l/gdk-pixbuf2-2.31.7-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory critical code execution package update slackware heap overflow gdk-pixbuf2

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gdk-pixbuf2-2.28.2-i486-2_slack14.1.txz