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Slackware 15.0: 2025-159-01 high: libvpx heap corruption

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Latest libvpx updates available for Slackware 15.0, correcting heap overflow vulnerabilities and improving overall system integrity.
New libvpx 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/libvpx-1.12.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: Use after free in libvpx allows an attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5283 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update heap corruption security fix Slackware libvpx

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/libvpx-1.12.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libvpx-1.12.0-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libvpx-1.15.2-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libvpx-1.15.2-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: fce15feffefd26563474cb1b3a25285c libvpx-1.12.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 86668c0b4845a84d8b6c253757d7adb9 libvpx-1.12.0-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 556d6228d83231784040cbf3c39e3193 l/libvpx-1.15.2-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 1d590621c057f8a3c6457980bc765fc8 l/libvpx-1.15.2-x86_64-1.txz

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update heap corruption security fix Slackware libvpx

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libvpx-1.12.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz

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