Perl/Seamonkey Updates for Slackware
Posted on: 03/14/2013 10:45 AM
The following updates has been released for Slackware Linux: seamonkey (SSA:2013-072-02) and perl (SSA:2013-072-01)
seamonkey (SSA:2013-072-02)
New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/seamonkey-2.16.1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey.html (* Security fix *) patches/packages/seamonkey-solibs-2.16.1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. +--------------------------+
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.
Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg seamonkey-2.16.1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz seamonkey-solibs-2.16.1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
perl (SSA:2013-072-01)
New perl packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/perl-5.16.3-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a flaw in the rehashing code that can be exploited to carry out a denial of service attack against code that uses arbitrary user input as hash keys. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1667 (* 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.