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Slackware 14.2 Security Advisory: Openexr Execution Risks Fixed

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Calendar Grey October 1, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent upgrades to openexr packages address vulnerabilities in Slackware 14.2. Ensure you have the newest installations to enhance your system's protection.
New openexr packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openexr-2.2.0-i586-2_slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Patched bugs that may lead to program crashes or possibly execution of arbitrary code. Thanks to Thomas Choi for the patch. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9110 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9111 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9112 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9113 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9114 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9115 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9116 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update security fix slackware execution risk openexr

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 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/openexr-2.2.0-i586-2_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/openexr-2.2.0-x86_64-2_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.2 package: 7f00592b5f0214f5091d87b355f26672 openexr-2.2.0-i586-2_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: f6eb9dc47a20f9a15b982cd73f41d8df openexr-2.2.0-x86_64-2_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 6248c0bebbb1fe703a45bc8d3392924e l/openexr-2.2.0-i586-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a7fb169236df1ad9efdbcf0ee278d524 l/openexr-2.2.0-x86_64-2.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update security fix slackware execution risk openexr

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg openexr-2.2.0-i586-2_slack14.2.txz

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