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Indeed
Probably in slackware64/
If not, neither "install-new" nor "upgrade-all" will catch it
Just a quick note on this to say that slackscan doesn't use the ChangeLog as a data source and will just handle this new addition without fuss. So, my half a dozen users don't need to take any special action here.
Wed Dec 6 20:29:23 UTC 2023
patches/packages/rdfind-1.6.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.
Redundant data finder utility, needed to build the kernel-firmware package.
Sat Dec 9 19:55:12 UTC 2023
patches/packages/seamonkey-2.53.18-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix release.
For more information, see:
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.18
1 updates (x86_64). Including a (* Security fix *)! : 1 Upgraded
Code:
Sun Dec 10 01:12:17 UTC 2023
patches/packages/libxml2-2.12.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
Add --sysconfdir=/etc option so that this can find the xml catalog.
Thanks to SpiderTux.
Fix the following security issues:
Fix integer overflows with XML_PARSE_HUGE.
Fix dict corruption caused by entity reference cycles.
Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic.
Fix null deref in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType.
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40303
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40304
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-29469
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28484
(* Security fix *)
Tue Dec 12 19:54:42 UTC 2023
patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-115.5.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix release.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/115.5.2/releasenotes/
6 updates (x86_64). Including a (* Security fix *)! : 1 Upgraded, 5 Rebuilt
Code:
Wed Dec 13 22:01:34 UTC 2023
patches/packages/libxml2-2.12.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This update addresses regressions when building against libxml2 that were
due to header file refactoring.
patches/packages/xorg-server-1.20.14-x86_64-10_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.
This update fixes two security issues:
Out-of-bounds memory write in XKB button actions.
Out-of-bounds memory read in RRChangeOutputProperty and
RRChangeProviderProperty.
For more information, see:
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2023-December/061517.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6377
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6478
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-x86_64-10_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.
patches/packages/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-x86_64-10_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.
patches/packages/xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-x86_64-10_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.
patches/packages/xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-x86_64-9_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.
This update fixes two security issues:
Out-of-bounds memory write in XKB button actions.
Out-of-bounds memory read in RRChangeOutputProperty and
RRChangeProviderProperty.
For more information, see:
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2023-December/061517.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6377
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6478
(* Security fix *)
2 updates (x86_64). Including a (* Security fix *)! : 2 Upgraded
Code:
Thu Dec 14 20:09:31 UTC 2023
patches/packages/bluez-5.71-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes a security issue:
It may have been possible for an attacker within Bluetooth range to inject
keystrokes (and possibly execute commands) while devices were discoverable.
Thanks to marav for the heads-up.
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-45866
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.6-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
We're going to drop back to the 2.11 branch here on the stable releases
since it has all of the relevant security fixes and better compatibility.
3 updates (x86_64). Including a (* Security fix *)! : 3 Upgraded
Code:
Wed Dec 20 21:10:47 UTC 2023
patches/packages/bind-9.16.45-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix release.
patches/packages/proftpd-1.3.8b-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes a security issue:
mod_sftp: implemented mitigations for "Terrapin" SSH attack.
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-48795
(* Security fix *)
testing/packages/bind-9.18.21-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix release.
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