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Slackware 14.2: 2019-308-01 Critical: libtiff Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2019
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Fresh libtiff updates released for Slackware to tackle vulnerabilities. Update now to avoid possible system failures and instability.
New libtiff 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/libtiff-4.1.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. libtiff: fix integer overflow in _TIFFCheckMalloc() that could cause a crash. tif_dir: unset transferfunction field if necessary. pal2rgb: failed to free memory on a few errors. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14973 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19210 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6128 (* 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:
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: 78007bc705f966acc7f4b5351f09ac1f libtiff-4.1.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: bba12a878b471a8691d09fd245ea80be libtiff-4.1.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 24b318b03c0636ec1934ed555761b7e6 l/libtiff-4.1.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: d4aca58c34cc4a601d63b77c73ff78f9 l/libtiff-4.1.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libtiff-4.1.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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