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Slackware 15.0 Net-tools Urgent Buffer Overflow Resolution 2026-154-02

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2026
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Critical security update for Slackware net-tools addresses buffer overflow risk with important instructions.
New net-tools 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/net-tools-20181103_0eebece-i586-4_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: interface.c: Stack-based Buffer Overflow in get_name(). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-46836 (* Security fix *)

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/net-tools-20181103_0eebece-i586-4_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/net-tools-20181103_0eebece-x86_64-4_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/net-tools-20181103_0eebece-i686-4.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/net-tools-20181103_0eebece-x86_64-4.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 828dd667d8030e4ddc4706730dd48eda net-tools-20181103_0eebece-i586-4_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: b2ed660e6785b0a5f00e745c46b6055e net-tools-20181103_0eebece-x86_64-4_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: aba145e3ade4832f9f7bdeb3b670a42d n/net-tools-20181103_0eebece-i686-4.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 70893d47aabe9ebc1e8f2ed0cf46a19c n/net-tools-20181103_0eebece-x86_64-4.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg net-tools-20181103_0eebece-i586-4_slack15.0.txz

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