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Slackware 15.0: 2023-032-01 Critical: Apr Coding Flaw Fix

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Calendar Grey February 1, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Freshly released apr packages for Slackware address critical vulnerabilities, such as integer overflow and out-of-bounds errors.
New apr 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/apr-1.7.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in apr_encode functions of Apache Portable Runtime (APR) allows an attacker to write beyond bounds of a buffer. (CVE-2022-24963) Restore fix for out-of-bounds array dereference in apr_time_exp*() functions. (This issue was addressed as CVE-2017-12613 in APR 1.6.3 and later 1.6.x releases, but was missing in 1.7.0.) (CVE-2021-35940) For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24963 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35940 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12613 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical slackware out-of-bounds coding flaw

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/apr-1.7.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/apr-1.7.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: f27961f2a01dbddb9485c4ddd075f023 apr-1.7.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 328109881520f4758c0f435f33b1eee5 apr-1.7.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: bdf0e548f53c8e2e8af46a6db145ad2e l/apr-1.7.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 083b32601177fe6096858986c0ed194b l/apr-1.7.2-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical slackware out-of-bounds coding flaw

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg apr-1.7.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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