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Slackware 14.2 SSA:2017-074-01 Critical: Pidgin Memory Read Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to pidgin software rectify a security vulnerability affecting various Slackware editions. Update today to bolster your protection.
New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a minor security issue (out of bounds memory read in purple_markup_unescape_entity). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2640 (* 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 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-x...

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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.0 package: d20c98688eb66e29ca9ba6996da24367 pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 9601e501acf501757c3972debc046c61 pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 0b719a9ebbe7ef63aa91cfb56d896fbd pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: c3f9f59aaada4ea092e953735e53a10d pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 3b7a265bb941d7d02bb2f8579e52bcd8 pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 1e58e64fc40ab5048b2dd5c4502373ec pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 4e1a85f3b6cd2d55ee03e5ffbebd9211 pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 1d0e93fc9820f17a71eefd0cd083f769 pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 81d89d2e087346464cfd5dd6dbcf2a43 pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 2dd13fb52cf1f3e21f61244af88a9dd8 pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 4deb19e7518f75f1f349ee78ec31082f pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 82a56eb89da558a75d23fbf7d852c4f7 pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: b68274158984e8162df4affaa383487f xap/pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 3f41d09769cd154030e6f23ab586d8b9 xap/pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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