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Slackware 15.0: 2022-341-01 Critical Updates for Python3 Security Issues

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Calendar Grey December 7, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent Python 3 updates for Slackware tackle various security vulnerabilities, promoting secure functionality and efficiency.
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/python3-3.9.16-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: gh-98739: Updated bundled libexpat to 2.5.0 to fix CVE-2022-43680 (heap use-after-free). gh-98433: The IDNA codec decoder used on DNS hostnames by socket or asyncio related name resolution functions no longer involves a quadratic algorithm to fix CVE-2022-45061. This prevents a potential CPU denial of service if an out-of-spec excessive length hostname involving bidirectional characters were decoded. Some protocols such as urllib http 3xx redirects potentially allow for an attacker to supply such a name. gh-100001: python -m http.server no longer allows terminal control characters sent within a garbage request to be printed to the stderr server log. gh-87604: Avoid publishing list of active per-interpreter audit hooks via the gc module. gh-97514: On Linux the multiprocessing module returns to using

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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: 35b47a72e146ac3e8b9f07f77623a22b python3-3.9.16-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: f476c223e996bc362fb9491776122306 python3-3.9.16-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 5608f4d944d918fbac0da5e0d090c82c d/python3-3.9.16-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: bddb9d9fd13a6e39a3ce4fde267a9d6f d/python3-3.9.16-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg python3-3.9.16-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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