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Slackware 14.x: 2018-034-01 Critical: PHP Package Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2018
Dist Slackware Esm H88
A recent security patch for Slackware 14.x introduces vital corrections for PHP packages, targeting vulnerabilities and bugs to enhance system safety.
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-5.6.33-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues, including: Potential infinite loop in gdImageCreateFromGifCtx. Reflected XSS in .phar 404 page. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5711 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5712 (* 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: fb0ddc5f3aac90db9c4955dd06ee648b php-5.6.33-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 3d4c2a311034e6be99a83c0e23362417 php-5.6.33-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 084a921e451e5ed86a32fa40775521cb php-5.6.33-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: ae8af5aea4e619ac247f27ba05538db7 php-5.6.33-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 1cede7e8a45f875e5bd7675ca0c4a2b1 php-5.6.33-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: d6c22d0f22118b23331b45866cf2da6c php-5.6.33-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 3bae03039f6c7b371da207719cb0e7bc n/php-7.2.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 969ff7188ac0f3725514effdf6f3a2b4 n/php-7.2.2-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg php-5.6.33-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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