Slackware 14.1: 2016-172-02 Moderate: PCRE DoS Security Update
slackware
June 20, 2016
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-8.39-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs (including a couple of DoS security issues), and retrofits to PCRE1 some appropriate JIT improvements from PCRE2. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1283 (* 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! :-)
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additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/pcre-8.39-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/pcre-8.39-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.1 package:
a13ec0d807ffc229b95e9e64ef92f2a1 pcre-8.39-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
4ad28496e439dc78d1885a80244e651e pcre-8.39-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
272aa6c70bafd4c0f583117144df13b6 l/pcre-8.39-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
e7bb79adac6e62ab2637e4cbde684a8f l/pcre-8.39-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pcre-8.39-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
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