A libtiff security update has been released for Slackware Linux 14.2 to address three security issues, including an integer overflow.
New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/libtiff-4.1.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. libtiff: fix integer overflow in _TIFFCheckMalloc() that could cause a crash.
tif_dir: unset transferfunction field if necessary.
pal2rgb: failed to free memory on a few errors.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14973 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19210 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6128 (* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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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 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/libtiff-4.1.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/libtiff-4.1.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libtiff-4.1.0-i586-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libtiff-4.1.0-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.2 package:
78007bc705f966acc7f4b5351f09ac1f libtiff-4.1.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
bba12a878b471a8691d09fd245ea80be libtiff-4.1.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
24b318b03c0636ec1934ed555761b7e6 l/libtiff-4.1.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
d4aca58c34cc4a601d63b77c73ff78f9 l/libtiff-4.1.0-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg libtiff-4.1.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
