Slackware 15.0 httpd Important DoS Fix for CVE-2026-49975 2026-154-01
slackware
June 3, 2026
New httpd 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/httpd-2.4.67-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes "HTTP/2 Bomb", a resource exhaustion denial-of-service attack against HTTP/2. For more information, see: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/790 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-49975 (* 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://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/httpd-2.4.67-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/httpd-2.4.67-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/httpd-2.4.67-i686-2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/httpd-2.4.67-x86_64-2.txz
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 15.0 package:
fe1db72c286841174ff38534c6e6918d httpd-2.4.67-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
b14dd1a6d97a842eee7a5ecd7b8f0855 httpd-2.4.67-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
eee9bd40cb210f87590334e724d2bde0 n/httpd-2.4.67-i686-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
594fcc2edd5ca2f41a3aade3b7d467bb n/httpd-2.4.67-x86_64-2.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg httpd-2.4.67-i586-2_slack15.0.txz Then, restart Apache httpd: # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd stop # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd start
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