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Slackware: 2023-173-01 Critical: Cups Use-After-Free Exploit

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
CUPS security patch issued for Slackware 14.2, 15.0, and -current tackling significant vulnerability. Update today!
New cups packages are available for Slackware 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/cups-2.4.6-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed use-after-free when logging warnings in case of failures in cupsdAcceptClient(). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34241 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue software update slackware cups use-after-free

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 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
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 14.2 package: a1c3921c39c5fbfa15d5f31c367cbc22 cups-2.1.4-i586-4_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 886ea4b6e32db3f9986a0bf3b55e0ade cups-2.1.4-x86_64-4_slack14.2.txz
Slackware 15.0 package: 08d7253a799f3e130e99daacffe6ffc6 cups-2.4.6-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 5e8dab51da5da6fa24168c17070cab61 cups-2.4.6-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: d45e3fa3ef968fb788ce06a96566d50c ap/cups-2.4.6-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 02efdfcaebed0057fbdc4f321462e80b ap/cups-2.4.6-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue software update slackware cups use-after-free

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg cups-2.4.6-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then, restart the cups server: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart

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