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Slackware 15.0: 2024-021-01 Critical: Tigervnc Remote Access Security Fix

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Enhancements to the tigervnc collections for Slackware versions 15.0 and -current rectify significant security threats identified in multiple CVEs.
New tigervnc packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.12.0-i586-5_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against xorg-server-1.20.14, including the latest patches for several security issues. Thanks to marav. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6377 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6478 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6816 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0229 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0408 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0409 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-21885 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-21886 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-21886 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote access security fix critical threat Slackware tigervnc

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 packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 13a4377260bd096461166e37ca16afe7 tigervnc-1.12.0-i586-5_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: a942377a4d2c2b4b80a556eb81e5d97f tigervnc-1.12.0-x86_64-5_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 2716715cb2d3d87c4eeb0141d2e1b7ae tigervnc-1.13.1-i586-3.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 2cd2eb06417478d62768c6f0a67f9550 tigervnc-1.13.1-x86_64-3.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote access security fix critical threat Slackware tigervnc

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg tigervnc-1.12.0-i586-5_slack15.0.txz

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