news 28 Posted February 21, 2009 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] libpng (SSA:2009-051-01) New libpng packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0040 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz: Upgraded to libpng-1.2.35. This fixes multiple memory-corruption vulnerabilities due to a failure to properly initialize data structures. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0040 ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png/src/libpng-1.2.34-ADVISORY.txt (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional 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 8.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i386-1_slack8.1.tgz Updated package for Slackware 9.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i386-1_slack9.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 9.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack9.1.tgz Updated package for Slackware 10.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack10.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 10.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack10.1.tgz Updated package for Slackware 10.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz Updated package for Slackware 11.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Updated package for Slackware 12.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libpng-1.2.35-i486-1.tgz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 8.1 package: b72b4984ba0c2e9a7f24b08cefc3e0f6 libpng-1.2.35-i386-1_slack8.1.tgz Slackware 9.0 package: 838fb3ac77c337e63caf824c6a653453 libpng-1.2.35-i386-1_slack9.0.tgz Slackware 9.1 package: 8a2d6b5d5b2ae4709b9d8ced87c2310e libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack9.1.tgz Slackware 10.0 package: 324d28160063dd5392682b5e48b951f9 libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack10.0.tgz Slackware 10.1 package: b72342d2369bfbd37eab715d55387186 libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack10.1.tgz Slackware 10.2 package: e34b312d3e2ffa6c2fa259ad1a5ff8a7 libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz Slackware 11.0 package: a21312631b4acb0f13303dd8d2a4fd3c libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz Slackware 12.0 package: e700f87d0cb515f1af7ad2be40adffa9 libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Slackware 12.1 package: 688f547f49f0693a188bd140c156a743 libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Slackware 12.2 package: 53a7f60816c4fb5db2e026653d3ed82d libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz Slackware -current package: bfe4fd72b01168cdfb7b0ee1841b5615 libpng-1.2.35-i486-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg libpng-1.2.35-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
