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Slackware 14.2: 2018-142-03 Moderate: Risk of Buffer Overflow in Procps-ng

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2018
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Slackware 14.2 and -current have been updated with new procps-ng packages to fix significant security vulnerabilities. Ensure you upgrade immediately.
New procps-ng 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/procps-ng-3.3.15-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Shared library .so-version bump. This update fixes bugs and security issues: library: Fix integer overflow and LPE in file2strvec library: Use size_t for alloc functions pgrep: Fix stack-based buffer overflow ps: Fix buffer overflow in output buffer, causing DOS top: Don't use cwd for location of config For more information, see: https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1124 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1126 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1125 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1123 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1122 (* 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 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/procps-ng-3.3.15-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/procps-ng-3.3.15-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.2 package: 4ca549250bc7dd3aae5e2e3f48fa6ed9 procps-ng-3.3.15-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: da931c37438fd3705830f92758611e0c procps-ng-3.3.15-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 123adafbc9126dd17466d03d00f59d66 a/procps-ng-3.3.15-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a04760fe9c39dc07c99621c83ffd1c39 a/procps-ng-3.3.15-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg procps-ng-3.3.15-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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