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From: Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To: slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject: [slackware-security] libX11 (SSA:2018-233-01)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:09:53 -0700 (PDT)
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[slackware-security]  libX11 (SSA:2018-233-01)

New libX11 packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current
to fix security issues.


Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog:
+--------------------------+
patches/packages/libX11-1.6.6-i586-1_slack14.2.txz:  Upgraded.
  This update fixes some security issues:
  Fixed crash on invalid reply (CVE-2018-14598).
  Fixed off-by-one writes (CVE-2018-14599).
  Fixed out of boundary write (CVE-2018-14600).
  For more information, see:
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14598
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14599
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14600
  (* 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.

Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/libX11-1.6.6-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/libX11-1.6.6-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/libX11-1.6.6-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/libX11-1.6.6-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/libX11-1.6.6-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/libX11-1.6.6-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/x/libX11-1.6.6-i586-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/x/libX11-1.6.6-x86_64-1.txz


MD5 signatures:
+-------------+

Slackware 14.0 package:
9bb8475057d8a2608b2fd12c0a1cbd21  libX11-1.6.6-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
58161eb995afd54e46c54ac7f8514863  libX11-1.6.6-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware 14.1 package:
12b07f273428650137f8f1ed7e8a47ee  libX11-1.6.6-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
9e3744bcdbeb040bf74e1cf60e65a6e3  libX11-1.6.6-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware 14.2 package:
e8dce4b7c0084e08cf5e98b01623e96d  libX11-1.6.6-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
0066b709becabab5661427863f9cbc37  libX11-1.6.6-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware -current package:
6ec3f2b5f2f314f5e9360e54864c70e5  x/libX11-1.6.6-i586-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
44e4bd7fd0842ff5f980d812828e78e9  x/libX11-1.6.6-x86_64-1.txz


Installation instructions:
+------------------------+

Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg libX11-1.6.6-i586-1_slack14.2.txz


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Slackware Linux Security Team
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security@slackware.com

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