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Slackware 15.0: 2023-283-02 Critical Update For Libnotify Security Issue

New libnotify packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] libnotify (SSA:2023-283-02) New libnotify packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/libnotify-0.8.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains a critical stability/minor security update which affects Electron applications that utilize Portal notifications (eg, through Flatpak). It is highly recommended that all users of libnotify 0.8.x update to this release. (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://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/libnotify-0.8.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libnotify-0.8.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libnotify-0.8.3-i586-1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libnotify-0.8.3-x86_64-1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 15.0 package: 9fa17d1faa882d2d14bfa2dfe009f079 libnotify-0.8.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 6a9a601e6f4053e166ce2029e990c6b7 libnotify-0.8.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz Slackware -current package: 4b31ada4e25abe2d29d892a4a169150c l/libnotify-0.8.3-i586-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: 9411aff6ff3a6857d567d1a9731a30e6 l/libnotify-0.8.3-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libnotify-0.8.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz +-----+ . Updated libnotify versions for Slackware 15.0 and current tackle significant security vulnerabilities affecting Electron application notifications.. Libnotify Update, Slackware Security, Electron App Fix, Package Upgrade, Security Update. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

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Fedora 24: 2016-c942ed0424 Moderate: Systemd Notification Crash Issue

Fix for the empty notification message issue. ---- Fix for crash on empty notification message.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-c942ed0424 2016-10-02 23:33:08.604399 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : systemd Product : Fedora 24 Version : 229 Release : 15.fc24 URL : https://https:// Summary : A System and Service Manager Description : systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix for the empty notification message issue. ---- Fix for crash on empty notification message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1380286 - CVE-2016-7795 CVE-2016-7796 systemd: Assertion failure when PID 1 receives a zero-length message over notify socket https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380286 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update systemd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. To unsubscribe send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Fedora 24 users can resolve empty notifications and crashes through a patch. Update to systemd version 230-7 released in October 2023 with installation steps. Fedora Security Update, Systemd Issue Fix, Notification Crash Fix. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

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