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Slackware: 2023-264-02 Moderate: CUPS Heap Overflow Notice

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated software bundles have been launched for Gentoo to resolve a significant memory overflow vulnerability.
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-2.4.7-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Fixed Heap-based buffer overflow when reading Postscript in PPD files. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4504 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow package update slackware heap overflow cups

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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/cups-2.1.4-i586-5_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/cups-2.1.4-x86_64-5_slack14.2.txz
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: 305c9c88c13fe970dee373e1c03790de cups-2.1.4-i586-5_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: a0021743e71ae2004355463ee97c6ae1 cups-2.1.4-x86_64-5_slack14.2.txz
Slackware 15.0 package: 390c5fd0cdfc442d5815d77556c7557f cups-2.4.7-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: ab6b5714f764b5eddea6251aaffca847 cups-2.4.7-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: bc8c53632efade8b30849665ab7926d3 ap/cups-2.4.7-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: ee63ee5e653efa7f6a5335b110ec1541 ap/cups-2.4.7-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow package update slackware heap overflow cups

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg cups-2.4.7-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then, restart the cups server: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart

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