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Slackware: 2017-300-01 Moderate: PHP Security Fixes Addressing Issues

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for php packages on Slackware have been released to fix critical security flaws and vulnerabilities present in multiple iterations.
New php packages are available for Slackware 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/php-5.6.32-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Several security bugs were fixed in this release: Out of bounds read in timelib_meridian(). The arcfour encryption stream filter crashes PHP. Applied upstream patch for PCRE (CVE-2016-1283). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1283 (* Security fix *)

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 14.0:
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 14.0 package: b8eee9d2c8884925478a7ab9f31578b7 php-5.6.32-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 0cd09259a114f8ead6d35e5f124bb6ad php-5.6.32-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: b3a8335a0e9b39599ffe76d1d5c5f3be php-5.6.32-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 16fae0e6cf8d8a2a752011633d9caad4 php-5.6.32-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: ff89f7d183e74d7ff82e658f8f8cc7c2 php-5.6.32-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 936df664bf168d01439041ae675dc6b9 php-5.6.32-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: e2b6c20fc87dba073ee9c9ec8b84744a n/php-5.6.32-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a1df088d303c3eb801da5aa9a27b9523 n/php-5.6.32-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg php-5.6.32-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Then, restart Apache httpd: # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd stop # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd start

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