Slackware-14.2 ChangeLog (2016-06-07)

Tue Jun 7 21:39:07 UTC 2016

  • a/smartmontools-6.5-i586-1.txz
  • n/gnutls-3.4.13-i586-1.txz
    Use secure_getenv() where available to obtain environment variables to
    fix an issue where setuid programs could potentially allow an attacker
    to overwrite and corrupt arbitrary files.
    This issue was only present in gnutls-3.4.12.
    For more information, see:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4456
    (* Security fix *)
  • n/samba-4.4.4-i586-1.txz
    Migrate any .tdb files in /etc/samba/private to /var/lib/samba/private.
    Thanks to ivandi.
  • xap/gkrellm-2.3.7-i586-1.txz
  • xap/mozilla-firefox-45.2.0esr-i586-1.txz
    This release contains security fixes and improvements.
    For more information, see:
    http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.html
    (* Security fix *)

Tue Jun 7 06:03:13 UTC 2016

  • a/pkgtools-14.2-noarch-7.txz
    In setup.80.make-bootdisk, use -i option with syslinux.
    Thanks to Richard Narron.
    In setup.80.make-bootdisk, try to use syslinux-nomtools. This is more
    reliable due to a race condition between udev and mtools when syslinux
    makes rapid calls to mtools. If syslinux-nomtools is not available, then
    run syslinux within strace which changes the timing enough that it works.
  • n/yptools-2.14-i586-7.txz
    Compile with –libexecdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/yp or else ypserv will
    not be able to start ypxfr on 64-bit. Thanks to Jonathan Woithe.
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-af-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-am-0.03_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-az-0.02_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-be-0.01-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-bn-0.01.1_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-br-0.50_2-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-ca-20040130_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-cs-20040614_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-csb-0.02_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-cy-0.50_3-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-da-1.4.42_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-de-20030222_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-el-0.50_3-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-et-0.1.21_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-fi-0.7_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-fo-0.2.16_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-fr-0.50_3-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-gd-0.1.1_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-gv-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-he-1.0_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-hil-0.11_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-hr-0.51_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-hu-0.99.4.2_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-ia-0.50_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-id-1.2_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-is-0.51.1_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-it-2.2_20050523_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-la-20020503_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-lv-0.5.5_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-mg-0.03_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-mi-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-mk-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-mr-0.10_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-ms-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-mt-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-nb-0.50.1_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-nds-0.01_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-nl-0.50_2-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-nn-0.50.1_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-no-0.50_2-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-ny-0.01_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-or-0.03_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-pa-0.01_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-pt-0.50_2-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-qu-0.02_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-ru-0.99f7_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-rw-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-sc-1.0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-sl-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-sr-0.02-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-sv-0.51_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-sw-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-ta-20040424_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-te-0.01_2-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-tet-0.1.1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-tl-0.02_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-tn-1.0.1_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-tr-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-vi-0.01.1_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-wa-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-yi-0.01.1_1-i586-5.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-zu-0.50_0-i586-5.txz
  • l/aspell-en-7.1_0-i586-1.txz
    On all of these aspell dictionary packages, use a proper $ARCH.
    Thanks to Didier Spaier.
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-bg-4.1_0-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-eo-2.1.20000225a_2-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-es-1.11_2-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-fa-0.11_0-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-ga-4.5_0-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-gl-0.5a_2-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-gu-0.03_0-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-hi-0.02_0-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-hsb-0.02_0-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-ku-0.20_1-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-lt-1.2.1_0-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-mn-0.06_2-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-pl-6.0_20061121_0-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-pt_BR-20090702_0-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-ro-3.3_2-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-sk-2.01_2-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-uk-1.4.0_0-i586-1.txz
  • extra/aspell-word-lists/aspell-uz-0.6_0-i586-1.txz
  • news/2016/06/07/slackware-14.2-changelog.txt
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