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Slackware 15.0: 2025-104-01 moderate: perl heap overflow alert

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to perl packages for Slackware have been introduced to mitigate a significant heap overflow vulnerability and bolster overall security protocols.
New perl packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/perl-5.34.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Heap-buffer-overflow with tr// Also upgraded Perl modules: DBI-1.647, Module-Runtime-0.017, Path-Tiny-0.148, URI-5.31. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56406 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory package update software upgrade heap overflow perl Slackware

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/perl-5.34.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/perl-5.34.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/d/perl-5.40.2-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/d/perl-5.40.2-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 1e31ca6132157ce8335d3984daf5898c perl-5.34.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 56ff5c8bb144c9d66ca215cb46f3689d perl-5.34.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: a6276118d4464a7a4795578a9a744b76 d/perl-5.40.2-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 43f2e00e07043f12a5f4996a6e52e486 d/perl-5.40.2-x86_64-1.txz

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory package update software upgrade heap overflow perl Slackware

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg perl-5.34.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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