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Slackware 15.0: 2022-244-01 Critical Poppler Crash Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
A recent update for Slackware addresses a major poppler vulnerability that may lead to stability problems under specific conditions. Ensure you upgrade immediately!
New poppler packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/poppler-21.12.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. [PATCH] JBIG2Stream: Fix crash on broken file. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-30860 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical DoS Slackware package management issue fix poppler

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 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/poppler-21.12.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/poppler-21.12.0-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 681572875875db923913fa9403d974d7 poppler-21.12.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 3ec89fbbdf94e68f4daa477faceda360 poppler-21.12.0-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: b91690866d21257db9c66985ceae5051 l/poppler-22.09.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: bf4d3f9a1894a59a00bae784162c7780 l/poppler-22.09.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical DoS Slackware package management issue fix poppler

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg poppler-21.12.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz

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