Slackware 14.2: 2018-108-01 Moderate: gd Denial of Service and Info Leak
slackware
April 19, 2018
New gd packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: This update fixes two security issues: Double-free in gdImagePngPtr() (denial of service). Buffer over-read into uninitialized memory (information leak). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6362 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7890 (* 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 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 14.2 package:
00f7ac709aebd7e2d83c106496a67503 gd-2.2.5-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
55090c6941dea831bdc6ad78d47055d9 gd-2.2.5-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
c996a52a4eed3ccc5af79320d27ef9f8 l/gd-2.2.5-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
e9a5c2882717f1df8d25c7b1ae03ecb5 l/gd-2.2.5-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gd-2.2.5-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
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