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Updated TigerVNC packages have been released for Slackware Linux:

tigervnc (SSA:2024-096-01)




tigervnc (SSA:2024-096-01)


tigervnc (SSA:2024-096-01)

New tigervnc packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to
fix security issues.

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.12.0-i586-6_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against xorg-server-1.20.14, including the latest patches for
several security issues:
Heap buffer overread/data leakage in ProcXIGetSelectedEvents.
Heap buffer overread/data leakage in ProcXIPassiveGrabDevice.
Heap buffer overread/data leakage in ProcAppleDRICreatePixmap.
Use-after-free in ProcRenderAddGlyphs.
For more information, see:
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2024-April/003497.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31080
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31081
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31082
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31083
(* 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 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.12.0-i586-6_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.12.0-x86_64-6_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.13.1-i586-5.txz

Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.13.1-x86_64-5.txz

MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 15.0 package:
1b9d9300689d99dc01d93a13bd7ca5f5 tigervnc-1.12.0-i586-6_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
6b54b9fd74517d203dd671d1bd4adda4 tigervnc-1.12.0-x86_64-6_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
ec1ad0a545c495e4a3397db00969ce39 tigervnc-1.13.1-i586-5.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
489f6eaadacd1e56f4428dd7e4e5cb5d tigervnc-1.13.1-x86_64-5.txz

Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg tigervnc-1.12.0-i586-6_slack15.0.txz

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Slackware Linux Security Team
http://slackware.com/gpg-key