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Slackware-14.0 ChangeLog (2017-11-29)
Wed Nov 29 21:48:33 UTC 2017
Packages
Upgraded
- patches/packages/curl-7.57.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
This update fixes security issues:
SSL out of buffer access
FTP wildcard out of bounds read
NTLM buffer overflow via integer overflow
For more information, see:
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-af0a.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8818
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8817
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-12e7.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8816
(* Security fix *)
Wed Nov 29 08:15:09 UTC 2017
Packages
Upgraded
- patches/packages/libXcursor-1.1.15-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Fix heap overflows when parsing malicious files. (CVE-2017-16612)
It is possible to trigger heap overflows due to an integer overflow
while parsing images and a signedness issue while parsing comments.
The integer overflow occurs because the chosen limit 0x10000 for
dimensions is too large for 32 bit systems, because each pixel takes
4 bytes. Properly chosen values allow an overflow which in turn will
lead to less allocated memory than needed for subsequent reads.
The signedness bug is triggered by reading the length of a comment
as unsigned int, but casting it to int when calling the function
XcursorCommentCreate. Turning length into a negative value allows the
check against XCURSOR_COMMENT_MAX_LEN to pass, and the following
addition of sizeof (XcursorComment) + 1 makes it possible to allocate
less memory than needed for subsequent reads.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16612
(* Security fix *)
Rebuilt
- patches/packages/libXfont-1.4.7-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Open files with O_NOFOLLOW. (CVE-2017-16611)
A non-privileged X client can instruct X server running under root
to open any file by creating own directory with “fonts.dir”,
“fonts.alias” or any font file being a symbolic link to any other
file in the system. X server will then open it. This can be issue
with special files such as /dev/watchdog (which could then reboot
the system).
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16611
(* Security fix *)