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Slackware 14.2: SSA:2020-083-01 Critical: gd Security Issue

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2020
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated gd libraries released for Slackware 14.2 to tackle urgent security vulnerabilities and enhance overall system robustness.
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: patches/packages/gd-2.3.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: Potential double-free in gdImage*Ptr(). gdImageColorMatch() out of bounds write on heap. Uninitialized read in gdImageCreateFromXbm(). Double-free in gdImageBmp. Potential NULL pointer dereference in gdImageClone(). Potential infinite loop in gdImageCreateFromGifCtx(). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6978 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6977 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11038 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000222 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14553 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5711 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow critical memory corruption slackware gd package

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/gd-2.3.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/gd-2.3.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.2 package: 02054b210ea398c39294503cfd96932a gd-2.3.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: b9de5217fd1c323ece6c42d59118f611 gd-2.3.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 073b5aa2f29173ac3549a55fae397a78 l/gd-2.3.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: ada8d37a3346d51cf1b773c01cbca8ce l/gd-2.3.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow critical memory corruption slackware gd package

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gd-2.3.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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