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Slackware 15.0: 2022-286-01 Moderate Threat: Python3 Update

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent python3 modules have been released for Slackware, addressing vulnerabilities related to buffer overflows and injection threats.
New python3 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/python3-3.9.15-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Bundled libexpat was upgraded from 2.4.7 to 2.4.9 which fixes a heap use-after-free vulnerability in function doContent. gh-97616: a fix for a possible buffer overflow in list *= int. gh-97612: a fix for possible shell injection in the example script get-remote-certificate.py. gh-96577: a fix for a potential buffer overrun in msilib. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40674 (* 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 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 7435c608cb442d37137b3c842da0ea12 python3-3.9.15-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 524f083f467a665eabee17b193b13d0b python3-3.9.15-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 75961e356cf6f599874ed39d734c3124 d/python3-3.9.15-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f4ca52753a7ab7d12a9e379af4540685 d/python3-3.9.15-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg python3-3.9.15-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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