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Slackware 15.0: 2025-168-01 important: xorg-server overflow issues

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Calendar Grey June 17, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for xorg-server in Slackware address significant security vulnerabilities linked to X Rendering along with potential overflow threats.
New xorg-server 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/xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: Out-of-bounds access in X Rendering extension (Animated cursors). Integer overflow in Big Requests Extension. Unprocessed client request via bytes to ignore. Integer overflow in RandR extension (RRChangeProviderProperty). These issues were discovered by Nils Emmerich and reported by Julian Suleder via ERNW Vulnerability Disclosure. For more information, see: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2025-June/062055.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49175 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49176 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49178 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49180 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz:

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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 packages for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-i586-14_slack15.0.txz
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-1.20...

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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 packages: 9aab4db9b15c94972dce2409535a178e xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz de297e71c5f5854cce41a953668e8c88 xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz f81eedf1a4d5d6442b08d4e49fc2ff2a xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz 2da7f6126496af7243711afa44f0c322 xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-i586-16_slack15.0.txz ab4e376c287fcf77044fc2aad0d88142 xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-i586-14_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: b851312a1aef3eeda753055e2c352fdf xorg-server-1.20.14-x86_64-16_slack15.0.txz 62495396cfd96eab939ce03a8c48941b xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-x86_64-16_slack15.0.txz 8b8bb87bdfcd3c5cf44b3afd2f0b2f1b xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-x86_64-16_slack15.0.txz 95ff0b9bf2549a04c40e5860ef250ed5 xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-x86_64-16_slack15.0.txz c3ffcadfa00dbfaff947b18674cf9e02 xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-x86_64-14_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: 09dff4c064e8837a353043d082f36b6a x/xorg-server-21.1.17-i686-1.txz 91ce040fc8f6db3448b973b9b5140e46 x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.17-i686-1.txz 2980bcf6829d6dcba459f2b9dd638ddd x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.17-i686-1.txz 3c49d22f7eb751c2aaa5abf7cb0bc4de x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.17-i686-1.txz 6ba487f0cbad101cca0d9db6145ae134 x/xorg-server-xwayland-24.1.7-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 99ceb1a271e6539ccce907973a11b23d x/xorg-server-21.1.17-x86_64-1.txz 3ab7acaeb61022730739663876d9a86c x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.17-x86_64-1.txz af2a02189834d1b007cfe88178e81258 x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.17-x86_64-1.txz c1de4cc0d19fe489925dc75038f8ee32 x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.17-x86_64-1.txz 1f1659f0b506d9db913e26ab74cfcf9f x/xorg-server-xwayland-24.1.7-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg xorg-server-*.txz

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