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Slackware 15.0: SSA:2025-099-01 Critical: python3 Security Update

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated Python 3 packages for Slackware 15.0 released to mitigate and tackle serious security vulnerabilities promptly.
New python3 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/python3-3.9.22-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: gh-131809 and gh-131261: Upgrade vendored expat to 2.7.1. gh-121284: Invalid RFC 2047 address header after refolding with email.policy.default. gh-105704: CVE-2025-0938 urlparse does not flag hostname containing [ or ] as incorrect. gh-119511: OOM vulnerability in the imaplib module. For more information, see: https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2025/04/python-3140a7-3133-31210-31112-31017.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-0938 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue threat Slackware upgrade python package

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/python3-3.9.22-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/python3-3.9.22-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 04469de0263e684e6a94bf713710ac6b python3-3.9.22-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: a116bfb663e464450acd80c9e4b06b1f python3-3.9.22-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg python3-3.9.22-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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