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Slackware 15.0: 2024-244-01 Critical Libpcap Security Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent libpcap enhancements address severe security vulnerabilities in Slackware 15.0, guaranteeing overall system safety and reliability.
New libpcap 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/libpcap-1.10.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Clean up sock_initaddress() and its callers to avoid double frees in some cases. Fix pcap_findalldevs_ex() not to crash if passed a file:// URL with a path to a directory that cannot be opened. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-7256 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8006 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical slackware threat mitigation libpcap

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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/libpcap-1.10.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libpcap-1.10.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libpcap-1.10.5-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libpcap-1.10.5-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 293031b602d63cc1d28a4bf833d15a29 libpcap-1.10.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: bc1f59d938e9b707c84ec26bbe33940a libpcap-1.10.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: a52f1a8064892102cb7b5038c00ff35b l/libpcap-1.10.5-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: d789bc6867690cb1ab76212e68a0c159 l/libpcap-1.10.5-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical slackware threat mitigation libpcap

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libpcap-1.10.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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