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Slackware 14.1: 2015-328-01 Critical: PCRE DoS Security Patch

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Calendar Grey November 25, 2015
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Freshly released PCRE updates have been deployed to address security flaws in Slackware distributions.
New pcre 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/pcre-8.38-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed overflows that could lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3210 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update critical slackware software fix pcre

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: 17909756f0f0a655fcd5a6bdfe1dc9ca pcre-8.38-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: a8b556fbac184a59b280711fe135b2ef pcre-8.38-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 6782e3065495afd3aa1c34513869121a l/pcre-8.38-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a60952dff3bcb66f69e0b0d9d6a8f93e l/pcre-8.38-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory denial of service security update critical slackware software fix pcre

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pcre-8.38-i486-1_slack14.1.txz