news 28 Posted June 21, 2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] pcre (SSA:2016-172-02) New pcre packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/pcre-8.39-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs (including a couple of DoS security issues), and retrofits to PCRE1 some appropriate JIT improvements from PCRE2. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1283 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the 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 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/pcre-8.39-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/pcre-8.39-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/pcre-8.39-i586-1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/pcre-8.39-x86_64-1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 14.1 package: a13ec0d807ffc229b95e9e64ef92f2a1 pcre-8.39-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 4ad28496e439dc78d1885a80244e651e pcre-8.39-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware -current package: 272aa6c70bafd4c0f583117144df13b6 l/pcre-8.39-i586-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: e7bb79adac6e62ab2637e4cbde684a8f l/pcre-8.39-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pcre-8.39-i486-1_slack14.1.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
