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Slackware 15.0: 2024-339-01 critical: python3 security update

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Calendar Grey December 4, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Important alert regarding updates for Python 3 on Slackware, focusing on critical vulnerabilities recently discovered, with necessary fixes and patch details now accessible.
New python3 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/python3-3.9.21-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: gh-126623: Upgraded libexpat to 2.6.4 to fix CVE-2024-50602. gh-122792: Changed IPv4-mapped ipaddress.IPv6Address to consistently use the mapped IPv4 address value for deciding properties. Properties which have their behavior fixed are is_multicast, is_reserved, is_link_local, is_global, and is_unspecified. gh-124651: Properly quote template strings in venv activation scripts. gh-103848: Added checks to ensure that [ bracketed ] hosts found by urllib.parse.urlsplit() are of IPv6 or IPvFuture format. gh-95588: Clarified the conflicting advice given in the ast documentation about ast.literal_eval() being safe for use on untrusted input while at the same time warning that it can crash the process. The latter statement is true and is deemed unfixable without a large amount of work unsuitable for a bugfix.

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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/python3-3.9.21-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/python3-3.9.21-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/d/python3-3.12.8-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/d/python3-3.12.8-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 442410e97c83f0bf012e1abf24bfb38a python3-3.9.21-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: fe7ea3b1913fe799098501eb6d1dc9ec python3-3.9.21-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 58839ccb36b2a96c70c4eb909c2d19d5 d/python3-3.12.8-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f5ca277a0431013f020f709684d94fb3 d/python3-3.12.8-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg python3-3.9.21-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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