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Slackware 15.0: 2022-313-02 Critical: Xfce4-Settings Argument Injection

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for xfce4-settings on Slackware 15.0 have been released to fix a significant security vulnerability. Ensure you update your system without delay.
New xfce4-settings 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/xfce4-settings-4.16.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed an argument injection vulnerability in xfce4-mime-helper. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-45062 (* 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: c4b137a5540bee7cc3c86eddf7e02a8a xfce4-settings-4.16.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: ab41d835450099a9b4f7fa04624d4486 xfce4-settings-4.16.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: cebb82e146a84fcc5fe19360e641774b xfce/xfce4-settings-4.16.4-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 51adec1023e4b98d7f0b2e7b24bee29b xfce/xfce4-settings-4.16.4-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg xfce4-settings-4.16.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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