Slackware 15.0 Kcron Update Announcement For Security Fix
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August 27, 2024
New kcron packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix a security issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/kcron-21.12.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: kcron: Invalid temporary file handling. Thanks to pbslxw for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20220216-1.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24986 (* Security fix *)
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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 package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/kcron-21.12.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/kcron-21.12.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 15.0 package:
f044c71ae38cdc78decbf96dfd23083c kcron-21.12.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
64ea18c93efdea14abbc0bea9f28e95b kcron-21.12.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg kcron-21.12.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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