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Slackware: 2016-210-01 High: libidn Out-Of-Bounds Security Fix

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2016
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Updated libidn components available for Slackware, focusing on security vulnerabilities and addressing out-of-bounds read errors along with crash fixes.
New libidn packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libidn-1.33-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed out-of-bounds read bugs. Fixed crashes on invalid UTF-8. Thanks to Hanno B??ck. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8948 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6261 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6262 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6263 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity system update Slackware out-of-bounds libidn

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 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.0 package: e5752514537f9dad268e35f4101062ee libidn-1.33-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 7e6a2ff576c5e8b2d72d8c5b1a4d8411 libidn-1.33-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 42c97d03ccc4542a984e43aef3976b7a libidn-1.33-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 69a2301c667a4875d76ab22e8cda54bb libidn-1.33-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 983aa791e2f98abbc32d34aa15b0e3c0 libidn-1.33-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 749ac81f5fa1f362d3c9bfd51f258d01 libidn-1.33-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 38d23c897945740e43f5240fc0ab3783 libidn-1.33-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: ce0c6024df6b67239e4b439e1de8bdd6 libidn-1.33-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 34540e8d94e80d0a952fe01eaec76c12 libidn-1.33-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 9c0b9eda3ac3126ddf340317081f462f libidn-1.33-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 3d77f9aaa5ff41b7ac525e2818069c81 libidn-1.33-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 2b15d7c82f92c051111e390e225936c2 libidn-1.33-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 2c480449f306e59dc50c7d700b0762cf l/libidn-1.33-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 4c060f5cd05eac8bfa897aceea85f1f2 l/libidn-1.33-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity system update Slackware out-of-bounds libidn

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libidn-1.33-i586-1_slack14.2.txz