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Slackware 15.0: SSA:2025-036-02 critical: mariadb DoS fix

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Calendar Grey February 5, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to mariadb for Slackware 15.0 tackle vulnerabilities that pose potential threats to MySQL Server, enhancing security measures.
New mariadb 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/mariadb-10.5.28-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21490 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue package update slackware network attack dos mariadb

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/mariadb-10.5.28-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/mariadb-10.5.28-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ap/mariadb-11.4.5-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/ap/mariadb-11.4.5-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 3119469f43e31517f7465b15c02f5fd6 mariadb-10.5.28-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: cbff3324d676208e000d4d6527ddea76 mariadb-10.5.28-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: ab26d9789765c8e1482b3d4cf6aed0b9 ap/mariadb-11.4.5-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f25858be5c0e39624ace013dac0696d0 ap/mariadb-11.4.5-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory security issue package update slackware network attack dos mariadb

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mariadb-10.5.28-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then, restart the database server: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld restart

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