Slackware 15.0 Krita Urgent Memory Vulnerability Resolution SSA-2026-093-03
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April 3, 2026
New krita packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix a security issue.
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/krita-5.0.2-i586-3_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: Heap-based buffer overflow when parsing TGA files. Thanks to pbslxw for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20250929-1.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59820 (* Security fix *)
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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 package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/krita-5.0.2-i586-3_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/krita-5.0.2-x86_64-3_slack15.0.txz
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 15.0 package:
e6c6a2224f180c85bf081ba93ab19e61 krita-5.0.2-i586-3_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
6de3b2e0ed7da333bdb77eab98c1331a krita-5.0.2-x86_64-3_slack15.0.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg krita-5.0.2-i586-3_slack15.0.txz
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