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Slackware 15.0 SSA:2024-205-02 Critical: glibc Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to glibc in Slackware 15.0 tackle critical vulnerabilities such as stack overflow and system crashes.
New glibc 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/aaa_glibc-solibs-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache. nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response. nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation failure. nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings. These vulnerabilities were only present in the nscd binary. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-33599 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-33600 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-33601 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-33602 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/glibc-i18n-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-profile-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://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 packages for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/aaa_glibc-solibs-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/glibc-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/glibc-i18n-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/glibc-profile-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/aaa_glibc-solibs-2.33-x86_64-7_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/glibc-2.33-x86_64-7_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware...

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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 packages: 66f7ee59e3665668d791b8c4e5de48ed aaa_glibc-solibs-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz 4d45eb6472c1ebb81c60eb8b3d6bf1a1 glibc-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz 7a0678e346991c74368cd2f00c36bc2a glibc-i18n-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz 1d69d0c0e313aa8858dde9ded66da53d glibc-profile-2.33-i586-7_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: 8988733b34ff060b8d21645fbcdc7865 aaa_glibc-solibs-2.33-x86_64-7_slack15.0.txz 73bacfb1b9dad7413a3f28f3569a5e31 glibc-2.33-x86_64-7_slack15.0.txz b94067e08eefe91cc6653f2d2b227c93 glibc-i18n-2.33-x86_64-7_slack15.0.txz d3233661b844b3ff85f526e2144d29f9 glibc-profile-2.33-x86_64-7_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: 5e75b97b86d815f783d154c45684ee9d a/aaa_glibc-solibs-2.40-i686-1.txz 4289505bfb9560119a23d8f59878eb5e l/glibc-2.40-i686-1.txz f74f6235a46e94c480f91a0055d032ed l/glibc-i18n-2.40-i686-1.txz 1e8f0a3f3b5896bfbab3c555cb0ca373 l/glibc-profile-2.40-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 9723996a8d43c5c002efcd107e3f30bc a/aaa_glibc-solibs-2.40-x86_64-1.txz c239b1893aa82ddfe7c8f03a993bfc32 l/glibc-2.40-x86_64-1.txz 49426d6a57eae1177a51595fa7907ed5 l/glibc-i18n-2.40-x86_64-1.txz 3c23430267ab63eb71a1917b6acf942b l/glibc-profile-2.40-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg *glibc-*.txz

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