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Slackware Tigervnc Important Fix Buffer Overflow 2026-190-01

slackware
Calendar Grey July 9, 2026
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Tigervnc packages for Slackware 15.0 and -current updated to address critical security issues and vulnerabilities.
New tigervnc packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.16.2-i586-4_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against xorg-server-1.20.14, including patches for security issues: glamor Font Atlas Heap Buffer Overflow. GLX contextTags Use-After-Free in CommonMakeCurrent(). For more information, see: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2026-July/062255.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-55999 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-56000 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important slackware use-after-free tigervnc

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/extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.16.2-i586-4_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.16.2-x86_64-4_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.16.2-i686-5.txz
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.16.2-x86_64-5.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: e91b4d85ebcff2b70ba7e40c0a229a6c tigervnc-1.16.2-i586-4_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 2c7277f1e3e7cd9236880f7ecc6f8f3c tigervnc-1.16.2-x86_64-4_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 3c62c5ea413d4c3117d8a46d1a538591 tigervnc-1.16.2-i686-5.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 5800715ba19bff2691bed15edeb3fbbb tigervnc-1.16.2-x86_64-5.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important slackware use-after-free tigervnc

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg tigervnc-1.16.2-i586-4_slack15.0.txz